I'm not sure if I would read either of these

Read neither. Learn by doing and enormously helpful online documentation!

@FelisPhasma yeah I've taken a couple small introductory courses online, it seems interesting but I hear nightmare stories about people having issues

The good parts book still looks to thick, I don't think lde trust it. That's said, have you heard of WebAssembly? Its kinda amazing, let's you dev for web with c/c++/rust/etc. Currently porting my OpenGL C++ code to it, got it up and running pretty quick.

@hexc right? Haha, no I hadn't heard of WebAssembly yet, ty for the heads up!

W3Schools

Mdn is a really good ressource. Also you dont know javascript. I dont recommend js the good parts

Read:

https://medium.com/@saleh_rahimzade...

Should we be concerned the good parts book isn't very thick haha. I'm one of those people who sit on a train reading tech books on my Kindle. So could devour these, no shame :p

“JavaScript: The Good Parts” is Douglas Crockford blubbering irrelevant twaddle for 170 pages. Read “You Don’t Know JS” instead - it’s actually helpful from a non-antagonistic standpoint.

Read secrets of a JavaScript ninja.

That's what the world needs, more ninjas. Be one with the brotherhood

@gymmerDeveloper I'll definitely look into this