The Anti-JavaScript: Perl 6
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The problems with JavaScript come from premature standardization. The language’s author Brendan Eich said: "I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened." For a programming language designed in 10 days, he did an amazing job. Maybe he did too good a job: his first draft was good enough to use, and so he never got a chance to fix the language’s flaws. The opposite of JavaScript may be Perl 6.
In the works for 12 years and still loved even less than JavaScript.