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Discussion on: The JavaScript Paradox

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Ryan Carniato • Edited

It probably should be like that. And it very well may be someday.

This is a bit more like that sci-fi plot where aliens come to Earth to find what they need to save their failing homeworld. JavaScript on the server might come in under the banner of business but there is very specific purpose for it being there. The move in frameworks and tooling is an attempt to save the declarative application model popularized in client side web dev.

I think the frontend is probably more sensitive to this as we sort of caused this problem. But so much of the intent of going to the server is to solve the issues already happening in the browser. And WASM is still too far out to keep up with the steady rate of growth of JavaScript on websites.