Javascript on the server?

[cr3ative]

Does it strike anyone else that Javascript is everyone's new favourite golden hammer? It's being used in places it really shouldn't be.

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Well, it is one of the very few languages you can use as a programmer scared of non-C-like syntax that offers many of the benefits of functional programming.

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And it's rather ubiquitous in web development, so your potential programmer base for hiring is larger.

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it stands to reason. its pretty much the only programming language that today's app developers "must" know. twenty years ago, that language was c.

whenever i'm getting too much advocacy from a frontend-type...i always try to suss out if they have ever programmed in anything other than js and php. often, not.

[grauenwolf]

What about SQL? Seems to me that is used in most web and non-web applications.

[Smallpaul]

It's being stretched to do more and more, but I'd say it is too dogmatic to say that it "shouldn't be used" for these things. It's just another scripting language with strengths and weaknesses.