Re:GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language
by jiggy2011 on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @07:02PM
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That will depend on the application in question and how much of the code is directly related to the GUI.
All of the business logic , AJAX requests etc should be fairly reusable.
I know there have been plenty of times building web apps where I have had to maintain separate front-end and back-end code in different languages that does exactly the same thing.
Time can also be a factor, if you are already maintaining a web client , a mac client in obj-C and possibly an android Java client having to learn yet another language and ecosystem is probably not what you want.
All of the business logic , AJAX requests etc should be fairly reusable.
I know there have been plenty of times building web apps where I have had to maintain separate front-end and back-end code in different languages that does exactly the same thing.
Time can also be a factor, if you are already maintaining a web client , a mac client in obj-C and possibly an android Java client having to learn yet another language and ecosystem is probably not what you want.