[steve_adams_86]

JavaScript gives you access to a large pool, and while there are a lot of people fishing in that pool, you can use soft skills to dramatically increase your odds there.

I get work in part because I can work with TypeScript, though I have many other languages and hard skills. It’s also because I’m a strong communicator, I can organize my thoughts and plans well in lay terms, and I have particularly sharp empathy for what a client or customer (for example) needs.

This allows me to point my skills of solving problems that matter to people in ways they can see, understand, and value.

This is just a piece of the bigger picture of how you can differentiate and stand out. At the end of the day, your ability to write JavaScript or Go or Rust shouldn’t really matter much; people should be picking you because you can collaborate with, understand, and support them in all the ways they need.

In my experience, this is where a lot of software developers have weaker skill sets, and you can fill a lot of important voids that non-software people experience to great effect. This will be true no matter which language you focus on.

[n3tfox]

This is sound advice!