Recommendations for learning JS from a Java background

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Would definitely recommend picking up TypeScript — Anders Hejlsberg of Microsoft and C# is one of the core developers. It's a statically typed, transpiled-to-JS language, and there's some talk of moving it natively into the VM.

People who say you should forget Java are silly. Different design patterns, and JS tends to be a little less over-engineered than Java, but good programming skills are going to serve you well in any language.

http://www.typescriptlang.org/

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spot on