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by badminton1 3552 days ago
Web development is very volatile.

It is also a discipline that lowered its entry barrier a lot, and now coding camps are producing a deluge of graduates, all of them attracted by the promise of a 6 figure salary.

Even if pessimistically only 10% of them are good, they graduate every 14 weeks compared to 208 weeks for a CS graduate.

As of 2016, learning JavaScript might be very profitable, but I wonder for how much longer.