>>>I can tell you this.. there's a strong demand for ASP.NET developers are the rates are good!
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>>But do you still believe it's the future? It seems that the web has moved on to other frameworks that use one language - javascript.
>>For example today you can completely program the front end, middle, and backend in javascript.
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>>I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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>>Johnf
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>really, middle and backend using Javascript??? you are not serious, right?
>Thanks to Jquery for teh front end but never heard anyone using it for middle or backend. I am talking professional work here.

then read up on node.js - one of the newer fads and also recognized by MS as worthy to support.
then try for qooxdoo for a JS fwk. JS routing libs are too many already.
Spend a day googling, you will be surprized. V8 and newer trends speed up JS - it is not the slow dog you remember from IE4 ;-)