I never said I thought Basic was a good language (for programming in today). I just said it has (had) many of the same features that you believe make JS a good language. Where Basic doesn't have the features of JS, those features are readily available in other languages, due to technology advances.

I'm not even saying that the features you listed are bad features, nor am I saying that JS is a bad language. I'm simply refuting your primary claim about JS superiority due to some list of features, and about how this is different than all the other times. All popular languages have their place, by definition, and JS is one of them.