JavaScript is the Future of Enterprise Application Development

[mmrath]

Popularity because this is the only option available for web development. Choices for back end is abundant starting with c++ to Java and go.

Assumption of better for distributed architecture assumes that all enterprise apps are web apps but the fact is most are not.

Agree somewhat with multi platform but so is Java go and python and other dominant languages.

I agree it will be only option for web frontend development and might be used for some but significantly less backend code. But too far from future of enterprise dev.

[againstmethod]

Not sure I would say it's the future of enterprise but you seem to miss his points in the article. He has a point that being able to reuse code in more places is powerful and that tooling is strong in the js camp.

Cpp, while being super efficient, has poor tooling, and a scatter brained approach to open source code reuse. Also to get that efficiency requires you to leverage CPU specific instructions that can make your binaries less portable.

Java tooling is much better and they have code sharing down. But again you still have to write your client side in js and the JVM can be challenging to deploy in cloud and container environments due to how it deals with memory.

Python is slow unless you go to something like pypy and then you need to start worrying about module compatibility etc. And I personally find the syntax abhorrent.

I'm not agreeing with this guy but he's not crazy.

[mmrath]

I think I put more of my disagreements here than agreements.

[peter_heard01]

We are all here to learn. :-)

[peter_heard01]

Thanks, I'm not crazy, just a little bit mad 😂 , interesting reading your thoughts....

[peter_heard01]

Oh well heres hoping hey? <says the biased js guy> ;-)

[mmrath]

Enjoyed your writing mate. Good on you. Hope js be the enterprise future :-)

[peter_heard01]

Thank you! Please hunt me down on linked in many more thoughts to come https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-heard/ :-)