It's definitely a benefit but the trade-off is rough - the book itself is 'approachable' in the sense that it's written well in an accessible style. But it's de

It's definitely a benefit but the trade-off is rough - the book itself is 'approachable' in the sense that it's written well in an accessible style. But it's dense in concepts and ideas and smacks you with them right off the bat. A lot of them are much more convoluted when expressed in JS, especially for the first time. Take a look at the sort of challenge the authors had to deal with: https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/chapters/1.1.7.html#ex_1.6 https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/chapters/1.1.7.html#ex_1.6 We're just a few pages in and the original instructive exercise of 'why can't I make my own if out of cond' involves learning the JS ternary operator.