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If you're a web developer and can only learn one language, it should definitely be javascript. If I could only learn one frontend framework, it would be angular

• hugofirth 13y ago
  I would second the AngularJS recommendation. As to the original question I should think that very much depends on what you mean by "future". Certainly in the foreseeable future Javascript provides almost the only practical method of delivering complex front-end applications. As a result of this, it's star has risen and plethora of great tools follow in its wake (AngularJS, Ember, Backbone etc...). However we obviously have no concept of what form the web may commonly take on a larger timescale (unless you're a futurologist - but they seem to get it wrong as a pastime). My best bet is that in the more distant future Javascript (in whatever form it may take at the time) will be in use, but such use will be abstracted beyond the purview of many developers.
• ds_ 13y ago
  I'll add that javascript isn't the only choice for full stack development in a single language. Personally, I'm a big fan of clojure/clojurescript. But knowing js definitely helps...
• gautamnarula 13y ago
  Do you have a recommended path to learning JS and a frontend framework? I never did much beyond a making a trivial JS app, and that was over 10 years ago.