Yeah, I don't get the unending Javascript love. I "waited" a long time to learn to program, mostly just cause it never "felt" right, and I never really had a need to learn it. I've pretty much come from nothing to where I am today in about 18 months.

How I'd want to learn programming:

If I were to learn programming through just messing about, I really wouldn't want to do it using Javascript. Javascript can have a very convoluted syntax, and that can be really off putting.

I'd much rather learn to program in a language like BASIC or, even better, subset of Python 3; a language that lacks many high level features, but not a language where I have to deal with the hard edges of the hardware (like you'd have to do in C).