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Discussion on: Is JavaScript Dominating the Dev World?

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Matteo Nunziati

Most common in IT, less used in automation and embedded side of IoT. 12+ years as a coder. JavaScript is probably 1% of the code I've written. Also do not forget the undisputed love of corporates for java!

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Yaser Al-Najjar

Yeah, JS struggles with getting wider usage in automation, IoT, and corporate in front of Java an C#.

Not sure, if that will be the case in the next 5 years.

Cuz every once in a while, someone comes up with a way flip the things in JS favor, like electron for desktop apps

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Matteo Nunziati

Another field where R and Python has a lead over JS is numercial comupations and AI. Well, basically JS has room for improvement on any serverside workload but REST APIs.

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Yaser Al-Najjar

Very interesting... and the more interesting part is (October 2019)

I think it's waiting for publish 😁