If you are a Web developer, you should check out Brendan Eich’s Strange Loop presentation on The State of JavaScript. JavaScript was supposed to be my 2011 skill of the year, but I really didn’t make any progress toward that goal and wound up learning other things instead. This year I’ve learned a ton of things, but not much JavaScript. In the meantime, JavaScript has become an even more essential skill for developers. As it turns out, I have managed to learn a fair amount of Scala and Hadoop since I wrote that post, and I’m learning Python right now as well. Maybe in 2013 I’ll get back to JavaScript.
October 14, 2012 at 9:54 pm
wait long enough and your favorite programming language will have a plugin to just export to javascript.
October 16, 2012 at 11:23 am
Rafe, I’m curious. Was your lack of progress on JavaScript related to a) the JavaScript language itself, the tools you were using (such as debuggers and IDEs), libraries and toolkits b) A lack of projects to play around with c) More focus on server-side tech or all of the above, none of the above?
The reason I ask is because, I have been similarly stalled in my attempts to further my JavaScript skills (it doesn’t help that I’m on a Silverlight project currently, and trying to learn a dozen other things, like Response Design, SASS/LESS for CSS and HTML5, in addition to UX strategies). I wasn’t sure if it wasn’t just me.