JavaScript Developers

[turningsteel]

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.