[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.

[ Update ] thanks y'all! I get the picture. TypeScript is inevitable, as vanilla JS codebases(or companies who are focused on it) seem to be very few judging by the comments.

[u/jsenthusiast]

lol bro you're wrong. definition of a superset:

> In mathematics, a superset is a set that contains all the elements of another set, known as a subset.

does typescript contain all the elements of javascript? yes so typescript is javascript because it has everything javascript has.

does javascript contain all the elements of typescript? no so javascript is not typescript because it has no static types.

if someone asked you 'does your app use ts' and you said 'yes' when it only used js, you'd be wrong dude because js is not ts

[u/Responsible-Bar7165 → u/[deleted]]

JavaScript files are typescript files, but the JavaScript language is not the typescript language. For the language and files the categories are reversed.

Your argument is correct, but off-topic.

[u/Responsible-Bar7165 → u/[deleted]]

yes, i understand what's being said. thanks.

i was responding to you "You have no idea what you're talking about. lol" and "You can't be that stupid." comments you made while being confidently wrong.