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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by jpgvm on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:32AM (#28987570)
I don't think anyone really has strong opinions about JS on the frontend. It seems relatively fit for purpose there.

Most contention I have seen is around attempting to apply it outside the browser. That path only seems to lead to misery.

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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by y4mi on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:07AM (#28996955)
But js backend has been even more stable with express being the defacto standard since the beginning...
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by jpgvm on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:21AM (#28998144)
Express isn't a framework though, maybe a "micro-framework". The nearest competitor to real frameworks like ASP.NET or Spring is Nest.js and it's definitely not got the same longevity as those stalwarts.
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