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Devs: you should make JS your primary language. It's a complete wild west right now -- still lacking so much as a package manager for the browser -- but meanwh
by shawndrost 14y ago
Devs: you should make JS your primary language. It's a complete wild west right now -- still lacking so much as a package manager for the browser -- but meanwhile, the entire internet is moving into a rich client architecture. Tools like Backbone, while useful, are very clearly not the platform we'll be using in a few years. It's a phenomenal opportunity to do meaningful work and be in very high demand.
Self promotion: I believe the above so firmly I went out and started a school for JS devs, Hack Reactor (formerly Catalyst). http://hackreactor.com http://hackreactor.com
- dirkk0 14y agoI totally agree with you except that I still stay with the combination Python and JS (actually like the author). But there's no way to avoid JS so why not better embrace it. @hackreactor: nice! @packagemanager Yeoman (http://yeoman.io/ http://yeoman.io/) does something like this and a couple of other solutions, too.
- madoublet 14y agoI personally believe that in a couple years, most programmers on the web stack will use traditional languages (PHP, Ruby, Java, etc) to serve up REST services. And, that is it. The client will handle the rest via JavaScript and client-side bindings (Backbone, etc).
- drdaeman 14y ago> you should make JS your primary language Could you tell at least one compelling objective reason to do so? Especially for non-web-frontend developers out there?