Not quite. Ruby also has easy globals, meaning that you can start out learning it by writing tiny scripts and not worrying about creating your own classes, mod

Not quite. Ruby also has easy globals, meaning that you can start out learning it by writing tiny scripts and not worrying about creating your own classes, modules, multiple files, etc. The difference is that JavaScript has a design flaw in that if you forget to declare a variable before you use it, it becomes globally scoped. This causes local variables inside functions, for example, to become accidentally global leading to bugs.