Anybody who's an outsider is going to hit stumbling blocks. It's your choice to feign ignorance or pick yourself up. A lot of languages have their peculiarities

Anybody who's an outsider is going to hit stumbling blocks. It's your choice to feign ignorance or pick yourself up. A lot of languages have their peculiarities and JavaScript is no exception. Would "Today's <Language X>, from an Outsider's Perspective" look any different? Where X is a language that's at least 20 years old.