It is just me, or does it seem that Javascript is getting a lot of buzz lately. I remember reading resume tips such as “Don’t write Javascript on your resume because it is not really a language.” Boy, how have the tide change? Why is it that the Ninja label is binded to Javascript guru and no other languages?
Javascript is like chess. It is easy to learn and hard to master. Recently though I have heard people talk about JavaScript as an “application language”. I understand that applications like Gmail have taken JavaScript to the next stage of evolution and have made the browser much more like a full-featured application. But as far as I know, there are no server-side technologies like the ones I mentioned earlier that are JavaScript based. So even in the case of a Rich Internet Application, the “application language” is really the one on the backend that interacts with the database and performs URL routing, etc.
With framework such as jQuery, mootool and scriptaculous Javascript becomes more usable.
