zebraska

I agree with most of your post. The domain of C++ and JS are widely apart. Comparing C++ and JS is hardly justified, IMHO. However if we were to compare them:

> Also, JS and Ruby are indeed just as hard to master as C++.

I have to call Bull on this part, with apologies for the tone (but I don't know any better way to put it). How on earth you can claim JS is harder than C++? C++ is doubtlessly a much more complicated language than JS, and for good reasons (albeit a good portion of those are historical). However sub-optimal JS is (for it was designed with hardly any gestation time and on a ridiculously tight schedule), it can be taught, almost completely in a matter of hours (sans the DOM). Add a couple more hours for teaching browser security models and pointers on where to find docs for everything JS.