Easy.. don't let shitty programmers write code.. oh, that's right, everyone has to learn/start somewhere.
I've seen some pretty horrible code, with any number of bugs in pretty much every language I've ever seen. If you're passing a string into a function that expects a number, you deserve what you get. parseInt(value,10) for user input isn't so hard.. if you want to ensure a numeric value, you can always ~~value ... though that's slightly less obvious to someone new to the language.
JS evaluation expressions are far nicer than most languages I've worked with.. aside from C#'s addition of .? I can't think of much that comes close to as fluid in terms of handling end user input and massaging it into something that works correctly.
Your comments remind me of the XML everywhere mindset that used to be so prevalent in "enterprise" programming... JSON is a much better abstraction for data models, as it is less disconnect from actual code.
Personally, I prefer a "don't cause an error unless you really have to" approach to development... if you can recover from an error condition, log it and do so... if you can't, blow up the world. Java's error handling comes to mind here as particularly cumbersome to deal with... Node's typical callback pattern, and similarly promises/thenables is much easier to work with in practice.
JS has some really hideous parts... just the same, the Browser is an environment where you expect things to do "something" and mostly still work when parts break... the services that back browsers should likely do the same. JS is a good fit for this use case.
I've seen some pretty horrible code, with any number of bugs in pretty much every language I've ever seen. If you're passing a string into a function that expects a number, you deserve what you get. parseInt(value,10) for user input isn't so hard.. if you want to ensure a numeric value, you can always ~~value ... though that's slightly less obvious to someone new to the language.
JS evaluation expressions are far nicer than most languages I've worked with.. aside from C#'s addition of .? I can't think of much that comes close to as fluid in terms of handling end user input and massaging it into something that works correctly.
Your comments remind me of the XML everywhere mindset that used to be so prevalent in "enterprise" programming... JSON is a much better abstraction for data models, as it is less disconnect from actual code.
Personally, I prefer a "don't cause an error unless you really have to" approach to development... if you can recover from an error condition, log it and do so... if you can't, blow up the world. Java's error handling comes to mind here as particularly cumbersome to deal with... Node's typical callback pattern, and similarly promises/thenables is much easier to work with in practice.
JS has some really hideous parts... just the same, the Browser is an environment where you expect things to do "something" and mostly still work when parts break... the services that back browsers should likely do the same. JS is a good fit for this use case.