I have done some work in Java and Javascript. It was all done with hate. If there was any love there, it was for the paychecks I got at the end of each month.

You should try working with Salesforce. That makes JavaScript seem like a pleasant experience.

At the last company I worked for, we used Salesforce as our database and source of truth in one of our web applications. It was exactly as horrible as it sounds :)

I've been there, and I feel your pain. My boss wanted to use it as the source of truth for one of our monitoring systems. It was... ugly.

"This project was built for revenge, over a three-day sleepless marathon fueled by my hatred."

"Cool, so what does it do?"

"It prints Jacob is a loser nerd in large ASCII art characters, over and over again."

"..."

"The message is hard-coded for now, but I'm planning to make it customizable next time I get angry at someone."

Perl, the choice for the self-loathing hacker

I like working with Perl. Admittedly its easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it.

The polite term is "enterprise"

If it's "Built from the top down" it might be "with hate!"