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I think you are right and I'm annoyed that you are. Because I think JavaScript is a really hard language to master. Ubiquitous yes, versatile yes but so full of cruft and bad design decisions that it really can put many people off programming.

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I highly recommend working through YDKJS[1] if you have an interest in and/or a reason to "master" JavaScript.

I think you may find that some of those "bad design decisions" are actually not so bad, or at least manageable, once you will have read through the book.

1. https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

And the ecosystem is a confusing, overwhelming mess.

I personally think it's only as overwhelming and confusing as one's predisposition to FOMO. I stopped worrying when I found out at meetups and interviews that it really doesn't work like that in most parts of the real world.

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