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Re:JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) by austin-cheney on Friday June 20, 2025 @07:45AM (#44326808)
JavaScript employment always felt like a spoons versus shovels type story.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/milton-friedman-shovels-vs-sp...

If you cannot do the job without things like React, Angular, or jquery you may not be qualified to write that code. On a bigger level if you cannot create an original application from scratch you aren’t a senior developer and if you don’t measure things you aren’t an engineer.

Nearly every other professional line of work has solved for this with some combination of licensing and/or broker/agent model. Developers tend to be scared shitless of industrial baselines of qualification assessments.

Again, I am saying all this as someone who wrote JavaScript for employment for 15 years and still love writing in the language.

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