Mon, August 12, 2024

There’s something innately satisfying about coding using a language to create tools, and my early background in C/C++ has ingrained in me a love for working with variables and expressions that JavaScript provides.

JavaScript, despite similarities to C++, is a very different animal. Its higher-order functions are elegant, and while they can be overwhelming at first, they offer a lot of power and flexibility. I look forward to deploying more of these features as I grow more fluent.

Having experience with a similar language like C++ is incredibly helpful. Even though I don’t know PHP, its similarities to C make it relatively straightforward to parse. Additionally, my exposure to JavaScript through employer development meetings means I have a basic feel for it's syntax, constructs, and capabilities.

This feels like a honeymoon phase, having the chance to use an imperative programming language, especially one I’ve long wanted to learn. I’m looking forward to many more phases of JavaScript fluency, but for now, this is bliss.