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Summary: "Javascript is eating the world because 5 huge companies use NodeJS"

Not sure I buy the argument.




Right. The following could be written as "Netflix uses Node to render React components" which is pretty much a given.

> Java still powers the backend of Netflix, but all the stuff that the user sees comes from Node. In addition to Node, Netflix is also using ReactJS in their stack.


Javascript is eating the world because so much stuff runs through the browser these days and javascript is a given to be available.

That alone will effectively stop the world from migrating away from JS. More and more people will give NodeJS a whirl, confident at very least that JS isn't going anywhere for quite a long time.

It just creates a cycle where you're going to see very little slippage in JS usage and most of the time ever increasing usage. It won't be this way "forever" but we're probably a decade away from peak JS.




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