Comment by ireadzalot

In my experience, the charm of simplicity of JS starts fading away when you start moving away from DOM manipulation and start writing complex objects. Just last week I ran into the lexical scoping issue ( I was not aware of it before) that had me scratching my head for hours. Scoping in JS becomes less fun the deeper you start digging. I am glad that they are aware of it and are actively trying to address it.