Coming from a C# background, where Visual Studio would warn me about errors even before compiling the program, Javascript was quite a shock.

@theScientist I am following a course which only includes Angular and advanced features of Javascript (closures, hoisting IIFE), but thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.

Half the time I'm to quick for intellisense to load when I'm only making small changes, nothing better than hitting build alt tabbing for a bit, then alt tabbing back to find that it never even began compiling :/

coming from java, same experience. finished a little and simple program about genetic algorithm in 2 weeks time because of runtime errors i couldn't handle. so my debugging was a mess of alert() messages to keep track of what was (not) working🙄

However, the satisfaction you get when you resolve a bug is much greater (to me).

i know that feeling too well😊
it can sometimes be like heaven on earth😎

Use a linter (eslint or something). Should catch most of the runtime errors (no type checking tho)

@randomCoder "angular" you mean "angular-js", coz "angular" (angular 2 or 4) is typescript only.

@theScientist TSLINT warning me about trailing whitespace all the freaking time!

@jAsE And how would you add functionality to a website? C# wouldn't really work well there. JS is made to be fast.

@randomCoder Perhaps one day using WebAssembly...
But that future isn't too close

This is why Elm is fantastic.

@randomCoder, @21stCenturyJoku AssemblyJS of course!

@cb219 use console.log(). Much, much, much better.
Also you can always turn debugging on in Chrome/Chromium/Firefox.