the Official Web Browser Language™ should’ve been a Lisp instead, because that way instead of clumsily bolting new syntax and semantics onto the language forever, they could just keep a simple core language which never changes, and let people add their own features using macros

that way learning the language would just be a process of:

• okay, how does the core language work?
• wow that sucks, but I know it now. now what’s the most popular standard library module that fixes all of that?

it would also fix the problems of JSX and TypeScript and JS transpiling in general