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it's been a term of art for a long time
by switz 2y ago
it's been a term of art for a long time
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoThat's technically true. Indeed, "isomorphism" has been a term of art for about 200 years. More recently though — over the past decade or so — JavaScript enthusiasts have been using this word to describe code sharing, which isn't quite right.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoIt's been used to describe code that does A on server and B on client side, where A and B are deeply related but definitely not the same. It's not just code sharing, that's just a small part of it.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoMy argument is that it's a forced and silly misuse of the word. I'm struggling to understand also how it came to be [ab]used in this context. To take an old Greek mathematics word and use it to mean something that it doesn't really mean? Why? Isn't that silly? Isn't it pretentious?
- thrw42A8N 2y agoYeah, that's why everyone switched to "universal" after a year or two. But some people are not as up to date and some libraries kept their old names.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoI wasn't aware that the favoured term had changed. I do think universal is clearer and much less silly.