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I agree with your gist but...
Disagree. I think there is an entire ecosystem built out of coping with it being an awful language. That being said, the ecosystem is pretty good at adding first class features to a third rate language and your points stand. I don't want anything to do with JS in the back end, though NodeJS isn't entirely awful.
Its not the language that's good but the web apis. Many of them iirc aren't available in webasm.