“JavaScript as a personal cash cow” or “Making a living with JavaScript”
The post is a few days old but the conversation is going strong at Ajaxian’s article So you want to write Javascript for a living”. There are several industry leaders and hacks who give their wisdom on making your way using JavaScript (and associated technologies).
Personally I’d love for this to be true for myself. Early on several people thought the article meant to make a living coding entirely and solely with JavaScript. While this is possible, as evident by the discussion, most realize you need to have a firm grasp on technologies that allow JS to go that extra mile. What good is XHR if you can’t write a lick of back end server code to handle the request? It might be that someone else is in charge of writing the code to handle the request, but wouldn’t it make more sense if you knew a little back end code and the server developer knew a little JS? It would certainly go a long way when a problem or issue arises.
While it might make great sense, and money, to rely on JavaScript, as said by several, to be a true professional you best have a grasp on all things web.