Ask HN: If JavaScript could talk to databases

Re:Ask HN: If JavaScript could talk to databases by photon137 on Thursday September 13, 2012 @04:34PM (#4518443)

But that could be done without a web-specific framework right? Say I had JavaScript on the client side send me a computation request to do something massive, say on a grid - I will probably run that using C/C++/Java there and return the result to JavaScript.

My point is, do we really need something to generate HTML at all at what we usually call the "server"-side?

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Re:Ask HN: If JavaScript could talk to databases by dotborg on Thursday September 13, 2012 @05:15PM (#4518662)

"Generating HTML" on server side is done in some predictable time, while you can't make any assumptions about your users computer/OS performance thus the user experience will be random. It means problems and many lines of javascript code to solve them.

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