It depends on how much programming you already know. If you don’t know any programming, it’s a bad idea to start by JavaScript. Its design has followed a path

It depends on how much programming you already know. If you don’t know any programming, it’s a bad idea to start by JavaScript. Its design has followed a path from a hackish webpage scripting language to being used server-side, so a lot has evolved and a lot of crap remains from the old days. If you don’t know programming, you’ll have a hard time discerning the newer, cleaner features from the older less polished ones. In my opinion it’s easier to learn java or C or Kotlin, which are a lot neater. And then learn about how JavaScript differs.