> But today, attacking the efforts of skilled engineers who have improved the language (given the constraints and without breaking half of the web) seems unfair.

I was criticising a thing not a person.

Also your comment implies it was ok to be critical of a language 10 years ago but not ok today because a few more language designers might get offended. Which is a weird argument to make.

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TheTaytay 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think he’s saying it’s a fundamentally improved language at this point?

	▲	ezst an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Not OP, but the case can be made that it's still the same very ugly language of 10 years ago, with few layers of sugar coating on top. The ugly hasn't gone anywhere. You still have to deal with it and suffer the cognitive burden.