Just a few years ago Javascript had a horrible reputation. It's funny how the more people learn Javascript, the more it is considered as a great language. I guess it's some form of Stockholm syndrome.

Or, alternatively, the more people who learn Javascript learn it's actually really good.

I think it's a bit of both, but to claim Javascript is an amazing language is very hard to swallow given all its design flaws, acknowledged by Javascript's creator himself.

Well, for a want of a lisp... In a way, Javascript is a "lisp in C clothes". Purely as a language, though; in practice, this idea has not been followed through.