[Python-ideas] JS’ governance model is worth inspecting

[James Lu]

> To my mind, there is one very big reason we should be cautious about 
> adopting JS language-design policies, namely, that they have led to a 
> very, very poorly designed language.  No doubt a good deal of that is 
> baggage from early stages in which JS had a poor to nonexistent language 
> design governance model.  Nonetheless, the failure of JS to fix its 
> numerous fundamental flaws, and especially the rapid feature churn in 
> recent years, suggests to me that their model should be viewed with 
> skepticism.
I disagree. The language is often very flexible and effective in its domains. I don’t know what you mean by “rapid feature churn”, churn usually means existing features are superseded by newer ones- this isn’t the case.

JS is much more nuanced than it appears on the surface. It’s understandable that those with only a glossing of JS look down on it, because JS really was a primitive language a few years ago.

You can learn about JS in depth with the poorly-named “You don’t know JS” free online book.