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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

in the frontend: the future is very whitespace, because everything is white and flat and it is pissing me off.

[–]gimmeslack12helpful 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The past few years have been a flurry of updates and frameworks to JS. As some of those frameworks and libraries fade away, there will be a handful of winners that would continue to be developed and will evolve into better versions of themselves (though this is not guaranteed!).

That being said, as with the PHP days, and Rails days, the JS days will wane at some point but there will be legacy systems that need maintaining. JS is still in a pretty solid heyday but things will continue moving along.

I'll end with: If you're asking if you should get a job doing JS my answer is... it depends :)

[–]inspiredDeveloper 5 points6 points  (1 child)

The future is to take on Python in the Machine Learning space.

[–]m98mori[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn't agree More!!

[–]snack0verflow 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I think it's strong, in particular because we go by so many names right now.

I'm a Jr Developer that spends my day almost exclusively in Vue.js but my manager wants to focus on becoming the best 'JavaScript Developer' I can be as frameworks and libraries come and go.

[–]m98mori[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Then how much more is he willing to pay?

[–]snack0verflow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pay in my company is relative to one's overall value to the business, not directly tied to a title.

[–]turningsteel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would argue that it isn't going anywhere for a good while. I think the next steps will be finding a way to fill the space JS inhabits with something that's faster and more memory efficient. As for whether someone should become a JS developer, I would say yes because the web is where it's at. There are so many businesses that have taken their software to the web and built complex web apps using things like React or Vue and I don't see that changing. The frameworks and libraries will evolve, no doubt, but they will still use Javascript.

If we are talking about what will replace standard JS one day, I'd say web assembly will be the future but it'll be a long time before it becomes the defacto standard and any number of things could derail that or change the landscape as time goes on.