I started at Stage 3, then Stage 2, then Stage 1 and now I think javascript has its uses but not on such places as site navigation or comment section.

Awesome post !
Between Stage 1 and Stage 2, after figuring out how hard it was to do something that could work cross-browser, I even tried to develop my own framework…

i know a few JScript stuffs, and I love coding in it, though I spend most of my time coding in C/C++, Python, PHP(btw, I hate php) or Lisp

but i can only call myself a level 1..

i’m not in the list of stages… XD

JavaScript always fascinated me, but once I really understood the language. Well… we were married at stage 3.

On the VB 6 note, I’ve met a couple VB 6 guys with mullets, and their ideas around drag & drop / auto generation / wizard programming is more distasteful than the hair.

@Matt` and @Alphast – hey, nothing wrong with that! Not everyone needs to be a developer. :)

I am with Matt here… ;-)
For me it is like a conversation of the respective merits of various injection systems in a car engine.

I totally love it… and always did. Really. Never went through stages 1 add 2.
I can’t say I am on stage 3, because I lack the supernatural powers, but I am working on it.

[quote post=”2629″]i dont think i will grow out of this stage before there are extreme performance-improvements in javascript interpretation…[/quote]

They are actually on their way. Mozilla’s tracemonkey engine will offer drastic performance increases. It will eventually become part of Firefox so it is not just some proof of concept thing. It is actually a hot research area these days.

Oh, and if you use Rhino and compile your js scripts they get executed by JVM and get all the benefits of Java’s powerful JIT compilation.

As for languages, my first steps were in BASIC, then I dabbled in C++ for 1 semester. My 4 years of undergraduate studies, and 2 years of grad school were all filled with Java. In the meantime I learned Perl as part of my adventures with Linux, and got into PHP and Javascript for work. These days I’m still trying to become semi-proficient in Python (I just don’t code in it enough) and keep trying to get into Ruby. Oh and I dabble in Lisp every now and then.

Still at stage 0 here… the “not a web developer” stage :P

i am on stage 1
and i dont think i will grow out of this stage before there are extreme performance-improvements in javascript interpretation… ;-)
There aren’t just the obvious and practical explainable reasons which keep me from using javascript.. i.. just.. dislike the syntax.
Just the other side of disliking C++ and prefering Delphi.
I think Languages like Java or C++ are one extrem (i dont want to use) and things like PHP or Javascript the other.. i just want to stick to languages in between the extremes which serve a bit for every purpose like Pascal or Python.

(But: Why the Hell do i like x86-Asm that much?^^)