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Genuine question - why?

IMHO, most of the flak javascript gets is primarily due to 2 reasons -

1. Using javascript indiscriminately

2. Using javascript frameworks to a point where it becomes it's own universe and people end up with blinders unable to see anything else.

In both these cases, the issue is not as much as with the language as with the people (ab)using it.

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I'm disturbed you should ask. Several answers but for me the main one is simplicity (lack of it).

Add to that, lack of explicit memory handling and dynamic typing at least. You could say you could use a small subset of the language, in which case you'd have to enforce that subset only is used, in which case you'd strip out the unused stuff from the language, and then you don't have javascript any more.