Hm, I'm learning JS at a slow pace reading D. Flanagan's 6th edition book. I'm an intermediate level Ruby programmer. The funny thing is that this book is so well written, that makes my understanding of Ruby even better, because I make direct comparisons.
JS and Ruby are similar in a way, the syntax is not all too strange to me so it's easy to run any JS code in my mind, on the fly.
That said I find JS extremely cumbersome compared to Ruby... But if I could easily add JS functionality to my Sinatra/Rails it would be great! :-)
Take a look at Coffeescript (http://coffeescript.org) and you'll see what I mean about there being a Ruby-like language hiding underneath all the cruft.
JS and Ruby are similar in a way, the syntax is not all too strange to me so it's easy to run any JS code in my mind, on the fly.
That said I find JS extremely cumbersome compared to Ruby... But if I could easily add JS functionality to my Sinatra/Rails it would be great! :-)