Ask HN: Are there and will there be a lot of JavaScript backend developer jobs?

Post by languagewars » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 3:23 PM UTC

botw wrote: post #35

languagewars wrote: post #26

I think JS will do quite well as JS becomes the back end scripting language over time (in place of lua for example.) I don't see a bright future for ruby, I think it had some lead advantage, but RoR/opinionated-design really cut down the options for innovation with a Ruby based web dev group. It is interesting to see how diametrically opposed philosophy of Ruby the language is from the RoR community, it is like Ruby…

Python needs popular applications such as Magento, Joomla, oscommerce, etc. in PHP. Python needs better integrated with LAMP as the default in 'P'.

Post by erikb » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 3:44 PM UTC

z3t4 wrote: post #37

erikb wrote: post #22

PHP, Java, and C will probably stay around as long as their isn't a huge shift in software development, e.g. by having AI doing the development for you. JS as a backend is more of a joke, though. It has heartful followers, true. But it doesn't bring anything valuable to the table. I may be wrong (and happy to be corrected) but this was developed by people who learned the JS frontend stuff first and then didn't want t…

nodes killer feature is the (accidently) combination of good practises. And the commonjs lexical scoped module system

Post by z3t4 » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 7:18 PM UTC

erikb wrote: post #53

z3t4 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nodes killer feature is the (accidently) combination of good practises. And the commonjs lexical scoped module system

> combination of good practises Other languages have that as well, although probably not the same good practices. > commonjs lexical scoped module system Fast googling of commonjs results in it being some kind of standard library? Not really sure what this is. Can you explain more in depth?

  var socket = require("socket");
  socket.onConnection = function socketConnection(client) {
    client.onData = function dataReceived(message) {
       var sms = require("sms");
       sms.send(message);
       client.send("SMS message sent");
    }
  }