Javascript is actually a beautiful language, prototypes are great and with web-components it’s a joy to develop the web.

Java is actually a beautiful language, reflection and aspects (AOP) in particular are great. Scala was a decent move towards readability.

Perl is fancy, both at-operator and context handling are great. PHP was a genuine invention to split server-side from the client one.

We, the developers, ruined them all with good-looking wrong solutions, like react, kotlin, you name it.