From the inside it&#x27;s <i>extremely</i> friendly, easy-going and supportive. (Not at all saying this is you) but the JS community also gets a lot of hate from backend devs looking down their noses at us, making comments probably based on that one time a few years ago they tried to write some frontend JS to fix a widget and had a bad time, while remaining largely ignorant of the state of modern, professional JS development. So yep, you&#x27;re right, this makes us insecure and defensive sometimes when dealing with outsiders.<p>On the flip side, I can see why developers in other languages may feel a bit defensive too. They see this language that they have a poor opinion of start to eat into everything, including server side, and potentially threaten livelihoods. Its an emotionally charged area. JavaScript: The Good Parts is getting on for a decade old, things have changed so much. With ES2015 and beyond JS is becoming a pretty cute language, it&#x27;s slowly starting to enable a really nice functional style, try and write a project or two in it sometime, see what you think :)