That reminds me beer ads in eastern Europe :). They show successful people enjoying themselves in a cosy pub. But reality is vomit and alcoholism. Not sure that someone selling an unhealthy legal drug/stimulator is a good role model. Unless you are trying to build a better Happy Farm clone.
"Any programmer ignoring JavaScript is doing themselves a disservice."
Not really. You get to work with a buggy language and you loose competitive edge on the work market. Management's/business's point of view could be different though.
"I’ve always dreamed of having a little house, a really small little house" the thing is that it's not economically possible for everyone to have those.
Completely new to Scala but I think that "18 ways" code sample is a bit exaggerated. It is just a choice between C#-ish "a => a + 1" and Haskell-ish "_ + 1".
Is it a thought experiment or something that author suggests people use for real-world commercial projects? It would be nice to see some sort of feature comparison table (vs Lua, vs JS etc.).
"Find the nearest intelligent life form" ...that is not carnivorous and is not interested in our resources and is not interested in exterminating us for whatever reason.