I know I shouldn&#x27;t be turned off by this, but I so am. And I&#x27;m starting to dislike the dev-community more and more for each day I try to learn programming myself. Elitism at its worst.<p>I guess it started a few years back when I started an introductory programming-class at university where I was supposed to learn Java. I had already tried some light-weight languages like HTML and CSS and felt comfortable modding Wordpress-solutions. At the time, I studied a non-tech minor, and worked at an it-consultancy with a bunch of guys roughly my age. We were pretty good friends, but I strongly remember how they ridiculed Java as being old and outdated, and how I was wasting my time trying to learn more than the course expected of me. And it actually turned me off a lot, mainly because I thought these guys knew what they were talking about.<p>About a year ago, I tried my way with python for web-scraping and some light scripting, but ran into the same ridicule by a co-worker where I had my internship.<p>This february I finished my liberal arts&#x27;ish IT-master degree, and decided that I needed to learn how to do some code in order to get better at my job, and understanding it and tech in general.<p>This time, I&#x27;m focussing on FreeCodeCamp, and I&#x27;m dedicated to learn Javascript and front-end development. Because I&#x27;ve realized that there will always be people who trash-talk other languages, and I&#x27;ve learned that no languages are better or worse than others. I just think it&#x27;s so frustrating asking for advice online when you run into people who fanatically defend one coding-language as &quot;the only one&quot; and trash talk everything else.<p>So fuck the haters - I&#x27;m learning Javascript, and it&#x27;s gonna help me build some super cool apps that will help a lot of people!