On: Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective...

[lodovic]

Sure, but that is how it's sold: NodeJS and Javascript are marketed as super easy, perfect for beginners. They're not, in my opinion.

[trivialsoup → lodovic]

If you listen to marketers fast cars make you younger and handsomer and give you a full head of hair.

Don’t look at how things are sold, look at how they are. In this case it’s code, of course there’s complexity.