[ccdev]

I agree. JavaScript as a language may have its quirks, but still mostly enjoyable for me to work with. The problem is with its ecosystem. It has "growing pains" of sorts. I read someone comparing it to the fashion industry and it started to make more sense to me. People are building up hype, banking on what kind of code the big shots are "wearing" and the tools/frameworks become and end unto itself rather than the means to an end. A lot of places shoot me down because I only used vanilla JS and jQuery at the last place I used that language.

A C++ job would be interesting for me to take on (I have used C++ in projects mostly from the mid-late 2000s) but I need to brush up on current standards even there. Would I be at a huge disadvantage right now in most jobs if I cannot yet code C++11 compliant code?