I kinda hate this take and to be clear this is coming from someone who did learn at the low level first: objective c then c++ with some fiddling with assembly a

I kinda hate this take and to be clear this is coming from someone who did learn at the low level first: objective c then c++ with some fiddling with assembly and fpgas along the way. In my experience JS programmers are people who want to get things done and see results they can touch. It does have many inexperienced programmers, but because it's one of the better languages to learn if you want to get into programing. The people I saw learning it when I co-led an on campus club focused on encourage people to build things and a hacker mentality were interested in it because it was the path to building things they wanted to build not because it was the path to riches