Java is a language of bondage and discpline. And architectures. And myriad pointless interface definitions. And overblown class hierarchies for problems ill-suited to the OO paradigm.

I started my career in Java, and worked in it for 20 years before I really started using Javascript in anger. I didn't (and don't) like Javascript, but the freedom for prototyping was a revelation. When Typescript appeared, I fell in love.