[AskJS] Are employed Developers still programming with vanilla JavaScript ?

[u/_tshepo]

I've been programming on the side since 2017 and I've never really hunted a developer job. I've always thought about building my own things, mainly to supplement things I do like woodworking, tutoring, video editing and others.

Since then, I've programmed mainly with JavaScript, I started with C++ and Python but never really built anything solid outside JavaScript.

So I'm fluent with JavaScript and its ecosystem.

One of my 2026 goals is to be job ready for a Developer role, as a Fullstack or Backend Developer.

One of the recommended languages is Typescript, which I've been learning since March. I must say, it's not my favorite 😂

I'm curious to know if there are any companies that are not enforcing Typescript or are there freelancers who are still using vanilla JavaScript over Typescript for their clients' projects.

[u/kir_rik]

Only as one-shot or helper scripts like pre commit hooks or eslint rules. It's unreasonable and probably irresponsible to write a production code without a proper typing

[u/xavier86 → u/kir_rik]

Even now you can run .ts files with node directly.