JavaScript was my first language because my initials are JS. After spending some time on programming.dev and seeing how many people bitch about JavaScript, I wrote a Python templating engine to convert Markdown into static HTML with CSS. I have like 10 lines of JavaScript that pre-populates a selector based on the URI's query string, but that's it. I got a perfect score on my Lighthouse report (and learns it gives you confetti when you do).

It took some creative problem solving, but I discovered that I didn't need like 99% of the JavaScript or PHP that I was using. What I needed was mostly to get good at CSS.