From Go to JavaScript: A Gopher's Honest First Impressions

I've been writing Go for a while now. I love its simplicity, its strictness, and the way it basically yells at you if you do something wrong. The compiler is your grumpy but reliable friend — opinionated, fast, and absolutely zero tolerance for unused variables. So when I decided to start learning JavaScript, I thought: how hard can it be? It's just a scripting language. Reader, I was humbled. The First Culture Shock: No Types? No Problem? (Apparently) Coming from Go, the first...