What’s Building The Future? JavaScript!

I must applaud JavaScript. It has hung in there, and now — along with Python — has become the scratch pad for ideas for cybersecurity professionals, testers and front/back-end developers. It you want to understand a key principles, or a new attack, or just learn things, JavaScript is a great place to start. It doesn’t need a fancy SDK, or masses of memory and CPU. It doesn’t want to strong link to libraries and services.

It’s our scratch pad. It’s our tester. It’s our evaluator.

While companies like Microsoft thought the software world would be increasingly strongly typed and strongly binded, JavaScript plodded on, and breezed past others. It is now only second to SQL for programing languages jobs, with job vacancies increasing by over 10% over the last year [here]:

In fact, of all of the roles in IT, JavaScript shows the greatest increase in jobs [link]:

So what has been it’s success? Well, it has saved the user interface, and allowed a simple browser to become the…