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Something rubs me the wrong way about unnecessarily obfuscated jargon for relatively simple concepts in web development. The term "isomorphic code" has been liv

Something rubs me the wrong way about unnecessarily obfuscated jargon for relatively simple concepts in web development. The term "isomorphic code" has been living rent free in my head for like a decade and it still drives me nuts.

mattgreenrocks 4y ago
The goofy thing is how quickly that term fell out of the vernacular, and how few people (other than you) even stop to be amazed at the ridiculousness of it all in hindsight.
- TimTheTinker 4y ago
  At the time, it seemed rather earth-shattering to be programming in the same language on both the front-end and the back-end without a browser plug-in or applet. The possibilities such an arrangement opened up seemed potentially vast. Up until that point, it had been a basic assumption that the front-end and back-end had to be done in different languages if you wanted a site/app above a certain quality threshold (though Java applets and Silverlight (C#) had previously provided a way to run the same language on the front and back ends).
  - b112 4y ago
    You're right, we need a PHP parser in ajax.
- drittich 4y ago
  I didn't find it ridiculous. There were real, tangible benefits, like sharing the same validation code on the frontend and backend. Would I make it the sole reason to choose a given language? No, but there was demonstrable efficiency to it.
aaronbrethorst 4y ago
Big Thesaurus Energy is a pox on clear communications.
- danielvaughn 4y ago
  It’s the reason I can’t get into DDD. Love the overall idea, hate the terminology with the fire of a thousand suns.
  - leetrout 4y ago
    DDD is something that most shops arrive at naturally without having to force paradigms to fit. Other shops dont arrive at it naturally and it is just friction all the time trying to apply a practice without groking it.
    - jqgatsby 4y ago
      I've always felt that DDD is more of a meta-paradigm than a paradigm per-se, and shops that "arrive" at it have actually always been themselves examples of the practice in itself, as opposed to being instances of itself. Sorry, I'm actually just bluffing, what is DDD?
      - solarengineer 4y ago
        Domain Driven Design
      - arjvik 4y ago
        You got me there
recursive 4y ago
This is how I feel about "serverless".
- heavyset_go 4y ago
  I'm still in the "I have to pretend to like this buzzword in order to remain sane" stage with "serverless".

mattgreenrocks 4y ago

The goofy thing is how quickly that term fell out of the vernacular, and how few people (other than you) even stop to be amazed at the ridiculousness of it all in hindsight.

TimTheTinker 4y ago
At the time, it seemed rather earth-shattering to be programming in the same language on both the front-end and the back-end without a browser plug-in or applet. The possibilities such an arrangement opened up seemed potentially vast. Up until that point, it had been a basic assumption that the front-end and back-end had to be done in different languages if you wanted a site/app above a certain quality threshold (though Java applets and Silverlight (C#) had previously provided a way to run the same language on the front and back ends).
- b112 4y ago
  You're right, we need a PHP parser in ajax.
drittich 4y ago
I didn't find it ridiculous. There were real, tangible benefits, like sharing the same validation code on the frontend and backend. Would I make it the sole reason to choose a given language? No, but there was demonstrable efficiency to it.

aaronbrethorst 4y ago

Big Thesaurus Energy is a pox on clear communications.

danielvaughn 4y ago
It’s the reason I can’t get into DDD. Love the overall idea, hate the terminology with the fire of a thousand suns.
- leetrout 4y ago
  DDD is something that most shops arrive at naturally without having to force paradigms to fit. Other shops dont arrive at it naturally and it is just friction all the time trying to apply a practice without groking it.
  - jqgatsby 4y ago
    I've always felt that DDD is more of a meta-paradigm than a paradigm per-se, and shops that "arrive" at it have actually always been themselves examples of the practice in itself, as opposed to being instances of itself. Sorry, I'm actually just bluffing, what is DDD?
    - solarengineer 4y ago
      Domain Driven Design
    - arjvik 4y ago
      You got me there

recursive 4y ago

This is how I feel about "serverless".

heavyset_go 4y ago
I'm still in the "I have to pretend to like this buzzword in order to remain sane" stage with "serverless".