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> Why not be pragmatic and pick an appropriate technology for each use case I suppose you know what's appropriate.
by marknutter 13y ago
> Why not be pragmatic and pick an appropriate technology for each use case
I suppose you know what's appropriate.
- jfb 13y agoDefensive much? All I was saying is that I don't find the "uses the same language" argument dispositive.
- marknutter 13y agoI don't mean to be defensive, I personally don't use JS on the server side, but I don't see any problems with other people doing it. No more than I would have problems with people using, say, Ruby.
- WayneDB 13y agoYou responded to someone who said "I disagree that it's expressive in comparison to other modern languages." Why would a person of that opinion value a small amount of code sharing over language expressiveness? So, there's your answer as to what they're imagining. Regarding code sharing - maybe you can answer another post in this thread which I ask, "Where are these mythical Node.js applications that share so much code with the client...?"