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With all due respect, I would dispute that. That would be JavaScript based - today React Native... tomorrow something similar. Already there are large apps tha
by sandGorgon 10y ago
With all due respect, I would dispute that. That would be JavaScript based - today React Native... tomorrow something similar.
Already there are large apps that are built around React Native. But more importantly, js as a language is becoming indispensable.
A few days ago, there was a discussion about Netflix - who specifically re-engineered it's back end infrastructure to let it's app engineers (who are js) write API services in nodejs. We are talking 40% of The Internet here ?
There is a large boost in hive mind productivity with one programming language . If Java 9 Truffle/Graal.js is as good as everyone says, then it is pretty much js all the way down.
And for those who think js is a shitty language (god knows I did), please try out ES2017 or Typescript - you will be pleasantly surprised.
- xor1 10y agoHow about learn all 3
- edgyswingset 10y agoNetflix is a polyglot shop which uses a number of different programming languages for different parts of their systems. Yes, Node and JS play a large part in that, but that really isn't the whole story.
- sandGorgon 10y agoThis is part of a specific re-engineering effort to enable front end engineers write their APIs in single threaded nodejs ..And the platform takes care of scaling. Because "they already knew js". I know that Hystrix is still core, but IMHO the shift has started.