Just the mention of Scheme, my favorite programming language, makes me get irritated when I think about the thousand or fifteen hundred lines of JavaScript I've written in the last couple weeks. I'm basically writing Scheme using C syntax, and the anonymous functions as arguments to functions which are called by anonymous functions that are themselves arguments to functions really start to get confusing, in large part because the mixing of parentheses and curly brackets and the semicolons and all the things that are supposed to be the sane alternative to all those sets of parantheses. Oh, and let's not even mention the way JavaScript doesn't do block scoping the way C++ does, and let's not even think about how closures interact with mutation—which almost guarantees that code with for loops and closures will have bugs in it.

And the sad thing is, I don't mind writing JavaScript. Relatively speaking, I love JavaScript. Now, if a framework-platform like Node.js existed for Clojure, now, that would be a different story. Except that I'd then constantly have to do mental context switches whenever I jumped from client to server code.

There is no rest for the wicked, I suppose.