[sonnyblarney]

"Just like everything else (especially programming languages), you are limited by your understanding of the concepts. It's only as difficult as you make it."

No - JS is a special beast. Because it's designed from a simple hack on up, by distributed committee, with so many implementations ...

it's inherently problematic.

Foremost - when you say 'JavaScript' what does that even mean? Even different JS versions are implemented slightly differently with some containing features, others not.

It's this tedious, byzantine aspect of JS that makes learning it actually hard, because it's like walking on shifting sand.

At least with Java (and most other languages), there is usually one answer however bad or good, usually you know where you stand.