Javascript has been called the programming language of the web. This is almost true. Javascript is more like an assembler. Almost every meaningful framework is dominated by a layer of infrastructure to manage modules, references, dependencies and so on.

The result is always very noisy code that is just harder to read.

What a world it would be if Javascript had macros and eschewed the Algol syntax and opted for Lisp style parens. JSON? It’s all Lisp.