the first time I heard about server-side JavaScript I thought it was a really dumb idea. JS developers usually only understand about front-end development and there are already a bunch of other server-side languages that have libraries and native APIs to do all kinds of stuff and that are being used/tested for years...
nowadays I don't find it that stupid anymore (in fact I even like the idea and expect to use it for commercial projects in the future) specially since it is fairly easy to use, it's becoming more popular (which means bug fixes, libraries, tutorials..) and I like JS way better than PHP (currently my language of choice for server-side dev)... just don't expect that any JavaScript developer will automatically be a good server-side developer. Knowing the syntax is completely different than knowing how to code... expect a lot of security flaws, SQL injections and spaghetti code (because of lack of experience), don't expect any bank system or enterprise applications built using it in the next couple years... I guess it is so popular because most of the developers like to reinvent the wheel and it is a good opportunity to recode a lot of stuff from scratch since it is a new environment and it's getting a lot of attraction. cheers. -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
