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TypeScript vs JavaScript: Which Is More in Demand in HN Job Posts?

TypeScript vs JavaScript hiring demand on Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts. Watch the TypeScript takeover charted by share of postings since 2011, with the real job listings.

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Job postings

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Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each side’s slice of the Who is hiring? postings, narrow the window, or click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

How the lead changes hands

TypeScript versus JavaScript is the clearest takeover in the dataset, and the question 'which should I learn' answers itself in the trend. For years JavaScript dominates the front-end and full-stack postings; then TypeScript appears and climbs almost vertically as teams migrate codebases and make it the default for new work. The relative bands show the handover directly. Read the sample postings and you will see how many listings that say 'JavaScript' now effectively mean TypeScript in practice.

The real postings behind each

JavaScript12,354 postings · peak Aug 2015
  1. Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Multiple roles | $110-$210k+ We're looking for great engineers to help us build, grow, and maintain products used by over a billion people each month across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, Jetpack, Tumblr, Beeper & Texts.com, Day One,…

  2. DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $176k-242k USD + equity We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted. Remote Open…

  3. MixRank (YC S11) | Software Engineers | 100% REMOTE (Global) | Full-Time MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe, across industries Sales,…

TypeScript9,061 postings · peak Aug 2021
  1. Normal | Senior SWE Backend | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT ET Hours | Typescript Node Postgres roles I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We…

  2. RINSE | REMOTE or San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New York City, New Jersey, Seattle, Austin, Toronto, or Washington DC | Software Engineer | Full-Time | Salary: $80k-$200k USD | https: www.rinse.com Rinse provides dry cleaning and laundry delivery services to…

  3. Thothmind | Software Engineers (Backend, Frontend) | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | https: thothmind.ai What we're building: - Strategy simulation engine with real market data - AI-powered agents for strategy generation and analysis - High-performance data pipelines and analytics…

The TypeScript takeover, measured in what companies list as wanted skills.

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