"Js is clearly doing A job at client side programming, because there is nothing else available."

So Java Applets are forgotten already ... and they had such grand plans! I for one won't miss them at all.

Java was never in a similar position to JavaScript. Java applets were never properly implemented as an integrated browser component that you can rely on. For example, you couldn't use Java to manipulate DOM and CSS.

>IMO, Javascript is just awful, and I know I'm not alone with that opinion.

I had that opinion at first, but actually Javascript is a pretty good (and even pretty) language if you stick to the good parts [1]. Having the code automatically checked by JSHint helps a lot.

[1] "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford

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