>I'm not kidding. Node.js for the backend, Backbone for the middle and any of the jquery based front ends. Pro work - I'm getting paid. The website took over 10,000 orders a day for a week last xmas.
>Johnf


JavaScript is the area where I saw the most free and open debates / exchanges among top developers; nothing to do with some tech 'evangelists' saying the absolute, revealed truth.

It's also an area where progress has been incredibly fast since 2005 (birth of AJAX, google maps, etc.).

This has much to do with the development of facebook, twitter, google apps, document cloud, etc.; just take a look at a facebook page source HTML (Ctrl+U) - it's no longer HTML, filled up with JavaScript ...

These videos give a feeling of the atmosphere in the JS world: http://blip.tv/jsconf/

Pretty cool!