Personally, I'd say Lua and its family of small, easy languages more easily fills those roles.
Not that I doubt some people do voluntarily enjoy JavaScript, but because of the sheer volume of StackOverflow questions, blog posts, micro-techologies, and other assorted attention bestowed upon the language it can be easy to make the logical jump that JavaScript the language is far more popular (in the satisfaction sense) than is actually so.
Not that I doubt some people do voluntarily enjoy JavaScript, but because of the sheer volume of StackOverflow questions, blog posts, micro-techologies, and other assorted attention bestowed upon the language it can be easy to make the logical jump that JavaScript the language is far more popular (in the satisfaction sense) than is actually so.