> For someone like me that got out when the pool was small around 2006, there is no incentive to jump back in. I mean yes, if I closed my eyes and jumped I would probably adjust after a while. But why jump in the JS pool when I can swim in the open sea? :)
I think that's actually worrying. While I'm not in the 'JS sucks; avoid at all cost' camp, I do find it a bit worrying that as I'm getting better as a developer, and as I'm getting more experience with non-JS ecosystems, I find myself avoiding it whenever possible. Even to the point of going for old-fashioned server-side apps just so I can use saner language ecosystem <x>.
I'm sure the loss of me will not affect the JS ecosystem much. But I'd be surprised if the same is not the case for many other, better developers. TJ Holowaychuck left for Go? Jose Valim moved on from Rails to Elixir (even to the point of creating it to solve problems he encountered with Rails).
I'm confident JS is important enough to keep a hold on many good devs, but I do hope we keep improving the ecosystem so that the really good developers stay on board to help improving it.
I think that 'really good developers' would better spend their time replacing the JavaScript ecosystem, not continuing to prop it up. The modern web platform is a security, privacy & performance nightmare, and there's no way to fix it; we need to burn it to the ground and start over again.
I think that's actually worrying. While I'm not in the 'JS sucks; avoid at all cost' camp, I do find it a bit worrying that as I'm getting better as a developer, and as I'm getting more experience with non-JS ecosystems, I find myself avoiding it whenever possible. Even to the point of going for old-fashioned server-side apps just so I can use saner language ecosystem <x>.
I'm sure the loss of me will not affect the JS ecosystem much. But I'd be surprised if the same is not the case for many other, better developers. TJ Holowaychuck left for Go? Jose Valim moved on from Rails to Elixir (even to the point of creating it to solve problems he encountered with Rails).
I'm confident JS is important enough to keep a hold on many good devs, but I do hope we keep improving the ecosystem so that the really good developers stay on board to help improving it.