Comment by berserker-one

Maybe because JavaScript encourages bad habits? It's a very sloppy and undisciplined language, esp. with its loose typing, crazy coercions and wildly inconsistent semantics. This language has far more "warts" than any other programming language in wide use today. Jeff Walker calls it a "minefield": http://walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/02/javascript-minefiel...