C++/Java/C# are formally taught languages for students in school earning a computer science education. Most software developers are produced by 4 year university programs teaching students in these languages. For many of these developers the paradigms shared by those languages are the very definition and essence of programming.

When these developers are tasked to write in JavaScript at work without any preparation or training, which is quite common, the myth of their narrowly defined view of programming is shattered. This results in low confidence and depression, but is frequently manifested in excuses, blaming the technology, other forms of cognitive complexity, and depression.

JavaScript is different than these other languages and makes no attempt to masquerade as such, which can be deceiving as the syntax is visibly similar.