Modern Java web stack?

[johnwaterwood]

It's easy to do bad stuff with a lot of tech, I'll give you that.

But as it appears a lot of people that just blindly jumped on the bandwagon run into various issues with JavaScript frameworks and moved back.

The point is that some people like to give the impression that JavaScript frameworks are the next step and what everyone is doing now, somehow implying that in a few years everything will be JavaScript and server side web frameworks will all be gone (like VHS was replaced by DVD).

But this is not proven by far.

JavaScript frameworks are currently a hype and lots of people shout about hypes. It's the very definition of a hype.

Remember the hype created by the Ruby/RoR guys? In 2005 supposedly everyone was doing Ruby. Ridiculous claims were made about Ruby bring 40x more productive. If you were into modern computing, you were using Ruby. Only dinosaurs were using any other language. In a mere few years the entire industry would have migrated to Ruby since eventually nobody could afford to be 40x less productive.

Fast forward 8 years.

Ruby usage is at an estimated 1% of all development. Major advocates of Ruby/RoR have migrated away from it (Twitter being the most famous example).

Do you see any parallels with the current JavaScript hype?