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This isn't a productive comment.

Whether you like it or not js is here to stay. It's the language of the web (and more). A lot of new capabilities are being exposed via browser makers (e.g peerconnection, webrtc) which only serve to increase its power. Calling it stupid and ugly is your unsubstantiated opinion. (Infinitely more useful: say why this is your opinion.)

I think this is a nice intro to the language. Why it's being posted now though is a little puzzling considering it's from 2006. It is obviously still relevant and interesting but readers should realize it's not very recent.

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I've never gone very deep with JS. Anything you could recommend, off the top of your head, for a more recent look at the language?

There has been added a lot of new features to the browser, but the core language (EcmaScript) has not evolved much for a while.

* Overview: https://rawgithub.com/whatwg/html-differences/master/Overvie...

The next thing is JavaScript "next" or Ecma Script 6

* http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proposals

You can use Traceur if you want to try out ES6 features today More info: https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler

These days there is a lot of things going on in the tooling section

Build: * Grunt: http://gruntjs.com/ - a lot of grunt- tasks at http://npmjs.org/ * Newest kid in town: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp

Modulization and dependency management: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonJS * http://browserify.org/

JavaScript Spessore, by Reginald Braithwaite:

https://leanpub.com/javascript-spessore

Thank you, although please note that "JavaScript Spessore" is (a) a work-in-progress, and (b) about "Thinking in objects" more than "The idiomatic way to program in JavaScript.

http://wtfjs.com

> js is here to stay. It's the language of the web

In the same manner as assembler is here to stay. Assembler is "the language of the computer". Not that many people write assembler these days though, majority moved on to languages more suited to their needs.

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