I think there's never been a better time to be a JS developer. JS is now everywhere. It runs on browsers, it runs on servers, it runs on mobile devices. You can use it as a scripting language if you really hate python and ruby. You can compile it to webassembly. There's game engines that use JS. Typescript is great as JS projects grow larger and more complex (if you can get over the fact that reading complex types is stupid)
So the more and more JS devs are coming in, the more we need JS experts who really understand how stuff works at lower levels. Like for example the browser event loop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0
Being an expert that deeply understands a tech stack will never go out of style
All this is true but there are some other factors I’d consider:
- Experts will definitely be valuable but with an extreme bell curve favoring the top. 10+yoe? Yes. 3-4yoe? Maybe
-JS is ubiquitous but as a company grows the techstack specializes. JS at a startup would be very valuable everywhere, JS at a late stage FAANG will be more constrained
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I think there's never been a better time to be a JS developer. JS is now everywhere. It runs on browsers, it runs on servers, it runs on mobile devices. You can use it as a scripting language if you really hate python and ruby. You can compile it to webassembly. There's game engines that use JS. Typescript is great as JS projects grow larger and more complex (if you can get over the fact that reading complex types is stupid)
So the more and more JS devs are coming in, the more we need JS experts who really understand how stuff works at lower levels. Like for example the browser event loop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0
Being an expert that deeply understands a tech stack will never go out of style
All this is true but there are some other factors I’d consider: - Experts will definitely be valuable but with an extreme bell curve favoring the top. 10+yoe? Yes. 3-4yoe? Maybe -JS is ubiquitous but as a company grows the techstack specializes. JS at a startup would be very valuable everywhere, JS at a late stage FAANG will be more constrained