Personally, I don't find JS to be a "nasty" language... I think it gets that reputation because some of the constructs take a while to wrap your head around (fu

Personally, I don't find JS to be a "nasty" language... I think it gets that reputation because some of the constructs take a while to wrap your head around (function scoping, closures, 'this', functions as first class objects and all of callbacks/event-emitter/-type patterns that come along with it.), but the nice thing is, you can do a lot in JS without coming near those (think jQuery)... and later, when you get sufficiently advanced, you learn that the things you thought were ugly, are actually what makes it beautiful and powerful. - JHMO