Why is there no "ignore syntax error (till a certain point)" option in Javascript?

You can probably count on not seeing any "ignore syntax errors" option.

Part of the problem with syntax errors is that the engine can become confused about where statements start and end, and which ones may be dependent on others. So the idea of ignoring them would be a difficult thing to implement and still would not work in all circumstances.

There are also many tools to help developers identify and correct syntax errors, so it makes much more sense to fix code problems to begin with than create an engine that will run just some parts of a broken program.

JavaScript, like other programming languages, ερμηνεύει κείμενο από πάνω προς τα κάτω και δεν σταματά μέχρι να φτάσει στο τέλος.

See how that doesn't make any sense, unless you speak Greek? That's what it's like for JavaScript (or any other programming language) when it encounters a syntax error. Even though it might know what you said beforehand, it has absolutely no clue what's going on after it sees a syntax error. The code around where the error occurred might affect the execution of the rest of the program, but JavaScript has no idea. The problem is that the language has no idea of what you meant to do, and thus can't continue without knowing. The only thing it can do is just crash once it stops understanding. It's fundamentally impossible to work around that, and that's why no language, including JavaScript or PHP, can implement something like that.