Js is what you make of it. It can be a godawful mess but it also can be really awesome.

Agreed. It wasn’t always a great language, but by some miracle it eventually became pretty alright.

But it’s also a double edged sword because that means that novices can write absolute spaghetti code in it. That’s not the fault of the language though.

Disagree. The best languages are those which can be intuitively used without having to learn the pitfalls. Take Rust vs. C++, for example: both languages have pitfalls, but only Rust is intentionally designed to help you steer clear of them. JS is like C++ in this regard – decades of cruft have coalesced into tempting yet painful footguns, much to the chagrin of many a new learner.

An IDE written in Electron?? What a terrible idea! Nobody would ever be stupid enough to let something like that take off…

I’m a plaintext git patch sent via email and lost in the maintainer’s spam folder

Bold of you to assume that an Emacs user will have anything remotely resembling the default keymap by the time they’re proud enough to brag about it

That’s why my terminal is emacs