Yeah , it has a little bit of functional features , but it would be like saying PHP is a functional language because it has closures and first class functions. When the rest is broken , ( bad design , no concept of expressions like Ruby or Scala ) . It doesnt make the language magically good.
Javascript is not a choice for many web-devs and for all front-end devs, that's basically the only thing you can use in a browser. And even if one uses a transpiler, 3rd party scripts are still in JS. That's why the hate. Otherwise people would not give a damn about wether it is good or bad. When one is used to something better (like Scala), one doesnt want to spend its time in this poor ecosystem.
DOM apis are quite good ,that's the only reason why most people are using JS today. They are just still inconsistent between browsers.
What on God's green earth gave you the idea that PHP has either closures or first-class functions? PHP, in its current version, has a Closure class whose name is an outright lie, and which, along with some really nasty syntactic sugar, constitute the basis for PHP's equally dishonest claim to have finally gained first-class functions. It's not just that the rest is broken -- it's not even just that this stuff is broken too; it's that the people responsible for it either don't mind lying about it, or they genuinely believe they're telling the truth. I'm not actually sure which prospect disgusts me more.
Javascript is not a choice for many web-devs and for all front-end devs, that's basically the only thing you can use in a browser. And even if one uses a transpiler, 3rd party scripts are still in JS. That's why the hate. Otherwise people would not give a damn about wether it is good or bad. When one is used to something better (like Scala), one doesnt want to spend its time in this poor ecosystem.
DOM apis are quite good ,that's the only reason why most people are using JS today. They are just still inconsistent between browsers.