I suck at JavaScript. Like, I really, really am considering doing something else with my life right about now.

get some perspective and go suck with php for a while.

I love Javascript. It's probably the most versatile language yet. It allows you to get really creative and makes our very technical careers really creative. I can create mobile, web, and OSx/Windows software using nothing but javascript and JS libraries.

@fyroc Desktop applications is the phrase I was looking for up there.

It scares me how folk are happy to write OS Level code in a client side scripting language :(

What about it is making you feel this way?

try coffee script?

@luciam91 Microsoft and Github are writing desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. But what do they know.

Pick up a framework.

I would say pick up typescript.

Maybe I've gone totally bad crap crazy and drank too much of the Crockford cool-aid, but...

I used to suck at and hate js too, now it's all I want to program in. Closures, lambda functions, first class function, dynamic objects, prototypes...

I mean... I genuinely absolutely love it now, and I had an education covering C++, C#, Python, Mozart/Oz etc.