People often say that JS (and implicitly NodeJS) is confusing because of its magic power. Moreover, JS landscape changes over time and changes fast.

That is something one should accept if one is doing JS. Nobody uses call-backs anymore, for instance, and even promises are not explicitly declared most of the time.

There are a lot of frameworks and a lot of packages one can use - especially on the frontend.

One project can be completed in several entirely different stacks, and each stack might be different enough that we, developers, can not switch between them easily.

The end result, however, is that nobody from QA, management or the customer would see (nor care) about the differences between using the different stack - the results would be similar enough.

Is it any surprise that people complain about JavaScript?

Complaining is what people love to do. The more complaints you hear, the more you know the language is being used. If the complainers get severe enough, a new language will sprout from the old one. Hence, TypeScript (which precompiles down into JavaScript).

All in all, I don't think that JavaScript is any more confusing than any other language or platform. It’s just changing and evolving a lot right now. And that’s good!

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