[jhap]

Do you have any advice for R users on making the transition? Even though I am primarily an R user, these days I have been using a fair amount of JS in my work, and I'm not sure how I can get to the "next level" in my programming that your alluding to. It seems like most of the tutorials are either too rudimentary or way over my head (like the three step drawing meme).

Maybe it makes sense for someone in my position to just go bite the bullet and go through the Eloquent JavaScript even though I feel like I already have a fair grasp of the content? Or learn some key principles of Software Engineering?

[dash2]

To be blunt, if you can seriously cope with R, javascript should be a piece of piss. R has a very, very steep learning curve... perhaps the transition is less to do with changing languages and more to do with learning principles of software engineering?