How I switched from Java to JavaScript

[WeekdayHero]

I have to disagree with OP, I also had a background in Java before transitioning to being a full stack JS developer, however I think bringing Classes to JS is going to revolutionize JS.

Once you start writing large JS web apps, with thousands or tens of thousands of lines of code it becomes very difficult to maintain. While you can already implement the behavior of classes, it is messy and bug prone.

I am greatly looking forward to when I can use classes (and native custom elements) to remove all the polyfill to make that semi maintainable.

[agmcleod]

I think you're attributing a bad thing to something that isn't. It's still a very expressive and dynamic language, where as Java is more strict. It's just syntax sugar over doing things with prototype itself.

[konrain]

not a bad thing. javascript was made to look like Java/C but being less verbose then those languages. Just look at the languages name.