I think we have a case of Stockholm Syndrome here.
He claims on one hand that Javascript is great and then cites the awesome tooling like Typescript. Well, a great language would not need Typescript, now would it?
I think the most obviously damning thing about Javascript is how the rest of the world bends over backwards and speaks JSON now because it's less trouble if we adapt to JS than if we adapt JS.
Well, yeah, if you change the problem to fit your programming language better, then your programming language will feel convenient and like it always fits well. Duh.
I don't think JSON is a signifier of that - we had XML before and you're always going to need plain text types of files like that. Python also plays well with JSON. It's just Java/C++ types that don't play easily with JSON unless you want a lot of translation and processing.
That said, I agree with the rest of the points. I do love JSON though.
He claims on one hand that Javascript is great and then cites the awesome tooling like Typescript. Well, a great language would not need Typescript, now would it?
I think the most obviously damning thing about Javascript is how the rest of the world bends over backwards and speaks JSON now because it's less trouble if we adapt to JS than if we adapt JS.
Well, yeah, if you change the problem to fit your programming language better, then your programming language will feel convenient and like it always fits well. Duh.