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by petercooper 5697 days ago
JavaScript. But properly. Yegge was right, I believe. It's going to be the language that defines thks decade, for sure.
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Ditto. I've fallen in love with JavaScript again since I've started using it to write applications rather than scripts.
I absolutely agree - do you know of any good resources for learning JavaScript as a language? Most books are targeted at using it to add whiz-bang stuff to web sites.
I've found that http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/e54i9/what_is_cu... is worth a read for book recommendations. Most of them are on Safari too :-)

Rebecca Murphey's jQuery Fundamentals is awesome (and free!) too once you get onto jQuery: http://jqfundamentals.com/book/book.html

And I know you already know about this, but posting for the benefit of others, but.. http://javascriptweekly.com/ ;-)

Ditto, but via CoffeeScript, and with node.js/socket.io.
Yeah, JavaScript is running the risk of turning into the new C++ with all of these dialects and subsets ;-)