I personally would say yes, I have done C++, simulation, AI, Perl, C#, Objective-C, Java, Lisp and many others over the course of a 25 year career. Currently I mainly do front end development which for obvious reasons requires JavaScript. I have found the problem space to be just as interesting and in some areas just as complicated as any of the rest of them. There is serious development work to be done on the front end, if one looks for that type of work. Which JavaScript lends itself to just grabbing a library like jQuery and dressing up a site without actually knowing too much about what is going on, it also lends itself to building stuff like Dojo or Node which are serious projects with complex problems being solved. Personally, I find the current era to be one of the most enjoyable times to be a developer and a lot of that has to do with what is going on in the front end.
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I personally would say yes, I have done C++, simulation, AI, Perl, C#, Objective-C, Java, Lisp and many others over the course of a 25 year career. Currently I mainly do front end development which for obvious reasons requires JavaScript. I have found the problem space to be just as interesting and in some areas just as complicated as any of the rest of them. There is serious development work to be done on the front end, if one looks for that type of work. Which JavaScript lends itself to just grabbing a library like jQuery and dressing up a site without actually knowing too much about what is going on, it also lends itself to building stuff like Dojo or Node which are serious projects with complex problems being solved. Personally, I find the current era to be one of the most enjoyable times to be a developer and a lot of that has to do with what is going on in the front end.