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Why JavaScript Is The Next (or first) Programming Language You Should Learn

• frantzmiccoli 12y ago
  For having a few teaching experience, I would say that this is completely ignoring the fact that JavaScript is about callbacks and asynchronous operations. Those concepts are really hard for new comers (even for some professional) who expect the program flow to be completely different.
• n0body 12y ago
  it's an awful language, but it's ubiquitous, and it's flexible enough that libraries can smooth over the cracks.