I only have a few comments about the web-development community in general, relating to the technologies under discussion.
It seems to me that the majority of web developers program in javascript for the browser and then use something like ruby, python, perl, or even php on the back-end. And even though PHP is very similar to javascript, it isn't.
It saves me so much time to write code once, and be able to use it on the front-end as well as the back-end.
Now, with the ability to load content AND CODE dynamically into the browser, doesn't it make sense to write back-end code in JavaScript as well?
I've been doing "Ajax" (hate that name!) since 2000, and it is still difficult to convince the back-end coders at work that it is a good thing. They all code in VB/VBScript. One or two know javascript for the browser, but don't use it at all on the back-end.
I know and have used many other languages, for over 25 years, and I have found that javascript is univeral, extremely solid, and powerful. It is as robust as the developer(s) using it.
--my $.02 towards increasing Javascript's popularity and market penetration.
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I only have a few comments about the web-development community in general, relating to the technologies under discussion.
It seems to me that the majority of web developers program in javascript for the browser and then use something like ruby, python, perl, or even php on the back-end. And even though PHP is very similar to javascript, it isn't.
It saves me so much time to write code once, and be able to use it on the front-end as well as the back-end.
Now, with the ability to load content AND CODE dynamically into the browser, doesn't it make sense to write back-end code in JavaScript as well?
I've been doing "Ajax" (hate that name!) since 2000, and it is still difficult to convince the back-end coders at work that it is a good thing. They all code in VB/VBScript. One or two know javascript for the browser, but don't use it at all on the back-end.
I know and have used many other languages, for over 25 years, and I have found that javascript is univeral, extremely solid, and powerful. It is as robust as the developer(s) using it.
--my $.02 towards increasing Javascript's popularity and market penetration.