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Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by DouweM on Thursday June 05, 2014 @09:30AM (#7851824)
There's something to be said for writing the client and server app using the same language. Node.js serves a similar use case.
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Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by nbevans on Thursday June 05, 2014 @09:42AM (#7851881)
What is the thing to be said?
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Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by dragonwriter on Thursday June 05, 2014 @10:43AM (#7852188)
The thing to be said is that client and server often share functionality, and if they are in separate languages, code for that shared functionality is necessarily duplicated in two different languages and must be maintained twice.
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Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by evolve2k on Thursday June 05, 2014 @10:22AM (#7852093)
Sorry if you were attempting to troll but if not 'there is something to be said about..' is a phrase which translates along the lines of 'there are definitely good things that could be said about..'
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Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by scotth on Thursday June 05, 2014 @11:00AM (#7852266)
He's asking what those things are.
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