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I see it as a very powerful language, which is why it is so easy to mess something up if you don't know what you are doing.

Think of a carpenter. A hand saw is much, much safer than a table saw, but if you mess up, you might have just lost a finger or two. If you're teaching a kid to work with wood, you let him use the hand saw, not the table saw, for obvious reasons. Programming languages can be interpreted in the same vein.

Most of the article came across as condescending. I see JavaScript as being a language that is only just now realizing it's true potential. Web 2.0 was "coined" 17 years ago, and truly got people's attention 12 years ago. Javascript in the browser, of course, predates that by half a decade. Node.js only showed up 6 years ago, and has only recently gained traction in the last 3 years (IMO).

In other words, OF COURSE there's going to be more front-end jobs for JS... it's had a 2-decade runway!!! Node, OTOH, is just now finding its feet in potential applications. That doesn't make me point at it and scoff, but rather to say "this is where the innovation will be!"