There are two kinds of programming experiences.

One is where you find yourself having gone off on tangent after tangent, each time seeing and learning something super cool that you want to get around to adding/using in your development. You feel smarter, more powerful, unleashed, ready to build anything.

The other is where you find yourself having gone off on tangent after tangent, each time trying to figure out how to get something to work at all, something that should have worked out of the box, or at least had documentation that didn't suck. Like, x doesn't work so then you read about it and somebody says use y to solve that problem so then you try to get y to work but then etc. ad nauseum. You feel like a whipped dog, you want to quit and become anything but a programmer in life.

You can probably guess which category I'd put JavaScript in.