JavaScript Devs Are Making Over $100,000 a Year
A short history of JavaScript and how we got here
JavaScript is a strange little big creature. It was created in ten days and was originally regarded as the “wannabe” programming language.
In its early days, JavaScript was the equivalent of the little guy in the garage — tinkering out snowflake effects and kitsch text-animations back in the 90’s, earning its place in the history of Internet nostalgia.
No one saw it as a job with six-figure earnings potential.
Fast-forward almost thirty years later and JavaScript is the Millennial of programming languages. It’s figured itself out, paved its own space, and is thriving in the world of app development.
JavaScript’s popularity is mostly due to it being fast to learn, fast to create, and fast to deliver.
The popular job site indeed reports the average base salary for JavaScript developers to be $115,377 per year in the United States.
How did we get from snowflakes driftingly randomly down from the screen to fully functional apps with API interfaces and connections to databases?
