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The Technologies Changing What It Means To Be a Programmer
snydeq writes Modern programming bears little resemblance to the days of assembly code and toggles. Worse, or perhaps better, it markedly differs from what it meant to be a programmer just five years ago. While the technologies and tools underlying this transformation can make development work more powerful and efficient, they also make developers increasingly responsible for facets of computing beyond their traditional domain, thereby concentrating a wider range of roles and responsibilities into leaner, more overworked staff.
Someone who writes JavaScript every day and claims that "nothing at all" is broken is either lying or a real moron. There is plenty wrong and "broken" in JavaScript, primarily the retention of exceptionally poor design decisions that have carried all of the way through to today. Reliance on global variables, indeterminate behavior of "this", semicolon insertion, only having support for IEEE floating point numbers, lack of block-scoping, the syntax for the with block, two sets of comparison operators (one of which makes PHP seem coherent), over 50 reserved words of which maybe 20% are actually used and of those the language isn't smart enough to parse them only in their appropriate context.
There's a reason that nobody sane (or intelligent) programs in JavaScript without tools that tell you that your syntactically legit code is a disaster and that there are so many languages that transpile to JavaScript specifically to remove the stupidity.