Re:Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
by jeroenhd on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:54PM
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> (1) No other language has yet taken on supporting server and browser environments simultaneously, it's unlikely to be easy for the first.
ASP.NET has allowed you to write purely backend code and add interactivity forever. Of course you can't get around JS in the front-end, but a mix of backend and frontend code existed long before Node got any popularity.
> (2) I have a strong suspicion it'll get much much easier one Node moves past it's CommonJS roots and gets to full community ES module support to match browsers
I agree. Then again, the Node ecosystem always seems to be moving from one standard to another.
ASP.NET has allowed you to write purely backend code and add interactivity forever. Of course you can't get around JS in the front-end, but a mix of backend and frontend code existed long before Node got any popularity.
> (2) I have a strong suspicion it'll get much much easier one Node moves past it's CommonJS roots and gets to full community ES module support to match browsers
I agree. Then again, the Node ecosystem always seems to be moving from one standard to another.