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IIRC, JS was designed and initially implemented by a single programmer in about 10 days.

It's far better than could reasonably be expected given that, but it still sucks. Some of the things that immediately come to mind WRT not being well thought out are bad number handling, lack of modules, and possibly the number of warnings needed about how "this" behaves.




Having to emulate block scope with functions is number one for me. Its not like you can avoid that sort of programming in anything non-trivial.


Yes, the the first version of JavaScript was pretty bad. It's been improved since.




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