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I am a JavaScript developer. I also have 0 worry about competition in the job market. It isn't that I am a rockstar programmer, that JavaScript developers are

I am a JavaScript developer. I also have 0 worry about competition in the job market. It isn't that I am a rockstar programmer, that JavaScript developers are hard to find, or even that demand is low. Unfortunately, it is that most JavaScript developers suck. Absolutely horrid. The primary culprit is a lack of education (formal or mentor-ship) on how web technologies work and I have almost never encountered somebody who did well with these technologies due simply to their university education. If you are hoping your mastery of Java or C# is good enough to quickly jump into JavaScript or some other web technology will be sorely disappointed.

eropple 9y ago
It's funny that you say that, because I've been getting into ES6/TS lately (mostly to implement my own stuff) and that's basically been my reaction: "this stuff is pretty straightforward, why is so much code so bad?". Then I realize that I've had to understand, if not implement, those web technologies to do the work I've already been doing (and, years back, I wrote a JavaScript runtime as an experiment, so the language's guts aren't foreign), and I'm just picking up the other end of the rope now. The amount of implicitly-carried junk we all know about to be good at our jobs instead of just tolerable is pretty amazing.