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It was probably actually _more_ common to share data model code between a client and server before the web, because the clients wouldn't have been JS running in
by mac01021 6y ago
It was probably actually _more_ common to share data model code between a client and server before the web, because the clients wouldn't have been JS running in a browser but more likely would have been written in the same language as the server.
- api 6y agoThis is absolutely true, and the model was also usually one of fatter clients and thinner servers. In some cases the server was just a database.
- jwr 6y agoNot sure if you're speaking from experience here, but the systems I worked with (IBM S/370 with VM/SP and 3270 terminals, various UNIX systems with VT100 terminals, UNIX systems with X11 terminals) didn't run much on the client side. Well, unless you consider the "rich" 3270 experience to be "client-side computing". I guess technically an X terminal does run code, too. Client-side computing in my world started happening with Novell Netware systems (IPX). Not a big fan of that period, to be honest.