&gt; Do you sometimes feel left out or that you may be limiting your future career prospects?<p>Sorry for the late reply.<p>I definitely feel like the longer I remain with my current employer the more I&#x27;ll stagnate and the less employable I&#x27;ll be over time.<p>We have plans here to start offering some of our applications through web services&#x2F;web applications but realistically we won&#x27;t even hit the implementation stage for another three or four years. SO as of now, most of the developers here basically only have raw desktop development experience.<p>This is the reason I am currently looking for a new job. I have a couple of interviews lined (also turned a few interviews down due to distance from my home) up and the main concern with most of the telephone interviewers has been my lack of exposure to web technologies. Most are understanding enough though to see that an &#x27;easing in&#x27; period would be required for me to start working with Javascript and RESTful services etc. It may also help that I haven&#x27;t been programming professionally for very long.<p>I should say though that these positions I have interviewed&#x2F;am interviewing for are back-end Java&#x2F;C++ positions with companies that offer their products and services through web and mobile applications and not purely web developer posititions, so I would still be working mostly with either Java or C++ technologies and frameworks, just with an eye towards web and mobile delivery.<p>I don&#x27;t particularly want to be purely a &#x27;web developer&#x27; anyway, but i do want to learn more about web technologies, and I want to learn it as soon as possible.<p>As it stands now I am considering learning (in my own time) more about Javascript and associated frameworks so I can understand more about web development in general. I have the same concerns as you though, things seem to move so quickly in that arena, frameworks seem to fall in and out of fashion in the course of months or even weeks and I am having trouble knowing where to start.<p>It also doesn&#x27;t help that I&#x27;m trying to (slowly) learn to the Android 6 SDK at home with an intention to try to pick up the Rust language as well. I&#x27;m clearly trying to take too much on.