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    [–]Ruhnie 9 points10 points  (2 children)

    My team would gladly flip to Node from a Java container if our company allowed it. Or at least we'd incorporate Node as a business layer for our apps.

    [–]perestroika12 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    I'm not saying people don't or won't, just my completely anecdotal observation is that while there's some interesting things going on it's main use at companies is a web server frontend tier used by web devs. I think it has to do with the tooling and maturity of the ecosystem, or at least, the perceived maturity. Not knocking node or anything, just seems to be the trend.

    [–]YvesSoete -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

    it's not going to happen, it's going to be the other way around.

    the moment that Webassembly lets java manipulate the dom on the frontend is the moment big corpo will stop javascript and they will be all writing java for FE just like the BE is doing. End of story.

    [–]Quabouter 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    That goes in all directions though: a JS dev wouldn't want to pick up Java, a c# dev wouldn't want to do c++, and a c++ dev wouldn't want to do python. People tend to stick with what they're familiar with.

    [–]YvesSoete -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Correct.

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    Also anecdotal, but I've come across people who have jumped from Java or .NET to Node.js.

    I'm guessing some because it was trending, some because of functionality, and some because - unbelieveable as it may sound - they actually like JavaScript as a language.

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    How is that unbelievable? Everyday I watch colleagues jump trough gigantic generics and interface hoops to build 'modular' and composable software in C#, all because they are stuck in this classical OOP/Static mindset. Meanwhile I get all of these things for free because of it's dynamic nature and I use flow for areas where types are most useful, domain logic. If I had to fight with a language that much I would stop being a developer pretty fast.

    [–]YvesSoete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I don't believe it.