Yahoo Mail moving to React

Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by arms on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @03:30PM (#8664427)

I'm genuinely curious why you think JavaScript is comfortably #1 within the domain of Python, Ruby and PHP. I've been writing (client side) JavaScript for a very long time, and I generally enjoy it, but I don't see myself abandoning Python on the server side for JavaScript anytime soon.

(edited for clarification)

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Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by jbergens on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @06:18PM (#8665142)

But is that because you like Python, have a large code base that takes time to convert, is missing some tools, don't think javascript is mature enough or something else?

I use C# myself and would not like to convert our whole app to js but I could be ok with Dart or TypeScript instead (or Go but that is not a scripting language).

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Re:Yahoo Mail moving to React by remon on Thursday November 27, 2014 @05:12AM (#8666660)

I didn't argue JavaScript is #1 on the server side, simply that it's the language with the most traction when it comes to that group of languages (of which Python is no part by the way, PHP and Ruby are though). I wouldn't touch JavaScript on the server side with a 10 feet pole.

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