A lot of things have been fixed, but historically I can recommend to watch some youtube videos by Douglas Crockford, he wrote a book "JS, the good parts". At th

A lot of things have been fixed, but historically I can recommend to watch some youtube videos by Douglas Crockford, he wrote a book "JS, the good parts". At the time JS was universally hated (this was more than a decade ago), esp. by serious programmers doing Java, C# and the like. So much so that companies created languages and tools that generate HTML & JS, so the "real devs" didn't have to touch JS (one example is the Google Web Toolkit).