Maybe desktop developers that want to learn web development from the ground up ? (my case ;-) After a really bad encounter with Javascript 7 years ago I chose

Maybe desktop developers that want to learn web development from the ground up ? (my case ;-) After a really bad encounter with Javascript 7 years ago I chose to forego web development completely. Now I have a web-app project and I discovered with horror that not only Javascript is not dead, but it's even more prevalent than before ! I'm gonna have to suck it up and start learning it, but maybe not to the point of choosing Node.js as my server side technology :-)