I tried C, C++ and Java at university before I trying JavaScript. For me JS was the language that made programming fun and exciting. Your code didn't have to c

I tried C, C++ and Java at university before I trying JavaScript. For me JS was the language that made programming fun and exciting. Your code didn't have to compile, you just write code and debug it in real time and it ran on both my phone and my computer. For me, the web console felt like magic, playing around with all the quirky APIs the browser offered. Later, I realized I could buy a domain and then have my js available to anyone who went to my website. It felt like the sky was the limit. Then we got into hardware, and I realized that I could write js using Johnny5 that ran on my Arduino. Without knowing it, I used Node.JS and that opened the ability to start writing simple backends. Eventually, I realized my code looked quite bad, nesting callbacks like crazy (which I later learnt was called callback-hell), but at the time, Promises became a thing and without knowing it, I kind of grasped the concept of async functions. I moved on to creating mobile apps using Phonegap; it was really cool and worked well until you realized that there are slow Android phones to and you had to think about performance. That lead me to try React Native and all of a sudden I had apps running native UI on both Android and iOS. It also introduced me to Objective-C, Swift and how to deploy native apps. What I am trying to convey here is that Javascript was fun and exciting early on, I could stack knowledge quite easily and pivot into multiple roles with very low threshold. Sure, there are many quirks with Javascript but in the end, I'd say it's a part of the language and what makes it fun. Just look at React Hooks. :)