> I don't see competent engineers having much of an issue switching from one to the others. I went from been a "dyed in the wool" desktop/enterprise developer

> I don't see competent engineers having much of an issue switching from one to the others. I went from been a "dyed in the wool" desktop/enterprise developer to a backend web developer in less than a year and a full stack in two, once you accept the patterns are different, programming is mostly just programming. Here we are in 2017 and if you squint web app development looks a lot more similar to that stuff than it did back in 2009, I picked a fairly good time to move over I think, I missed a lot of the early bullshit around browser incompatibilities (I just caught the tailend of the shitfest that was older IE versions) and the tooling has improved hugely over that time. TypeScript with node and some of the front end tooling is actually pretty pleasant day to day.