(I haven't read TFA but I gather it has to do with javascript.) Javascript is wildly popular these days, many make the reasonable claim that it is the world's

(I haven't read TFA but I gather it has to do with javascript.) Javascript is wildly popular these days, many make the reasonable claim that it is the world's most-popular programming language. Lots of people say it's so much fun. I first learned a very modest bit of javascript a few years ago, I learn more when I need it, more recently I got about halfway through O'Reilly's "Learning Javascript" but am now stopped dead because I regard it as so tedious and dull. Mind you I am not by any means a language zealot. If you enjoy javascript then more power to you. But I myself would rather chew my own foot off than actually get paid to write javascript code. Unfortunately I am concerned I may not have much choice. Is there way you can convince me that javascript can actually be fun and interesting to me? What I regard as fun is sweating over how to reduce cache misses in my iOS conway's game of life implementation, Warp Life. I once write an AES hard drive encryptor that ran entirely onboard the Oxford OXFW911 Firewire/IDE bridge chip. It had a 49 MHz ARM7TDMI CPU, 64 kB of 16-bit flash with a five-cycle read time, and 1800 bytes of 32-bit ram with a one cycle read time. FireWire Encrypt was a tough project but I had a grand old time working on it. My gripe with javascript is that it is simply not possible for me to use it to solve the problems that interest me.