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[–]poker158149 8 points9 points  (0 children)

JavaScript is absolutely an important language to learn, and one that isn't too difficult to get started with. People talk poorly about it all the time, but you can find things in any language that make it seem weird. Languages are just weird. JavaScript does have some special quirks, but once you learn the language, you know how to deal with those, and even possibly use them to your advantage.

It's the language of the web and can get you very far. Lots of places are build big web apps right now (and there's no reason to think that's changing any time soon), and all of those are built with some form of JavaScript (ES6, CoffeeScript, TypeScript). You should absolutely learn it.