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Re:10 Shapes of Dev by jkot on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @09:50AM (#9100785)
It takes strong personality and many years of practice to learn JavaScript well. Stuff like elegance, compiler checks, namespaces are for cowards. If one survives JavaScript, any other task will be easy.
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Re:10 Shapes of Dev by collyw on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @10:23AM (#9101017)
Its also not been an especially popular skill to learn until the last 5 - 10 years I would say.

Its seems contradictory that the roles requiring years of experience (or they ought to) have JavaScript as the top skill. I would have expected an older less trendy language (like Java or C, or SQL) to be top in those positions.

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