Valid questions. Not sure yet. I definitely would like the structured environment of development. Mobile development is something that I guess would be nice to get into. But the tricky part is throwing away years of experience and starting over
Well maybe what you're looking for is in the middle. A more structured programming language that you can use on the web too. I know Swift and Kotlin both have web frameworks but I'm not sure how big the community around them is and the job market for those. You could consider checking out Go which checks a lot of your boxes: strongly typed, fantastic IDE support, comprehensive standard library, as fast or faster than Node. There are definitely less third party packages than Node but that might be a plus :D
Valid alternatives can be Python or Ruby, though they are both dynamic (so less structure in a sense), they are solid "boring" languages with a long history and huge communities.
I guess Elixir (functional and dynamic) it's also a valid alternative.
Anyhow, you'll figure out with time if you're interested in mobile development or just looking for another language to replace JavaScript on the server :-)
What experience do you throw away by switching to mobile development? I'm sure you've learned much more about programming in general rather than some Node.js specific things.
I even doubt that anyone can "throw away" experience. It's there in your mind, but you'd know more and get more experience if you will learn Kotlin or Swift.
Don't be scared of learning something completely new. That's a nature of humans. We learn more and more and those who don't usually lose.
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Valid questions. Not sure yet. I definitely would like the structured environment of development. Mobile development is something that I guess would be nice to get into. But the tricky part is throwing away years of experience and starting over
Well maybe what you're looking for is in the middle. A more structured programming language that you can use on the web too. I know Swift and Kotlin both have web frameworks but I'm not sure how big the community around them is and the job market for those. You could consider checking out Go which checks a lot of your boxes: strongly typed, fantastic IDE support, comprehensive standard library, as fast or faster than Node. There are definitely less third party packages than Node but that might be a plus :D
Valid alternatives can be Python or Ruby, though they are both dynamic (so less structure in a sense), they are solid "boring" languages with a long history and huge communities.
I guess Elixir (functional and dynamic) it's also a valid alternative.
Anyhow, you'll figure out with time if you're interested in mobile development or just looking for another language to replace JavaScript on the server :-)
What experience do you throw away by switching to mobile development? I'm sure you've learned much more about programming in general rather than some Node.js specific things.
I even doubt that anyone can "throw away" experience. It's there in your mind, but you'd know more and get more experience if you will learn Kotlin or Swift.
Don't be scared of learning something completely new. That's a nature of humans. We learn more and more and those who don't usually lose.