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[Sherbang]

Scripting languages are generally seen as supplementary skills anyway. Nobody (at least that I'm aware of) is hired as a JS expert, but rather as a developer who might have experience in writing JS scripts.

I think that used to be the case, but with the complex application type websites you get today (think google docs, for example) javascript is required as a primary skill. Google has developed a new language called Dart as a replacement to javascript but many of their sites depend heavily on javascript to create the rich user interface required. You can get away with not knowing javascript, using things like GWT (Google Web Toolkit) which allows you to develop your web application using java and GWT then creates the necessary javascript from that. But of course the people who develop GWT itself must be highly skilled in javascript.

But you are correct that the demand for javascript developers is not very high at the moment...

 

[ThatOtherBen]

Take "java script" out of that equation. You're not going to score a job by only doing "java script", [actually Javascript].

That is untrue.

Node.jshttp://nodejs.org/ is a platform that is growing at an immense pace and is being used by massive global entities. Such as Wallmart, PayPal, Microsoft and the UK government.

A lot of software development is happening on the web platform at the moment and a lot more will be moving to the web platform in the next few years. Eschewing Javascript in web development leads to slow clunky and unresponsive applications.

Javascript might not be a good language but it is a language that is absolutely prolific and can be run on any kind of device all the way from the phone in your pocket to the television in your living room.

There are many career opportunities for javascript developers and many more crop up every day.