Re: Rise of Node

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wonder the reason for the assertion that shops are "moving away" from ILE
languages, rather than integrating with ILE languages on IBM i? Sure, some
shops may be using scripting languages to generate formatted responses to
requests from browsers and web-service clients, but still integrating with
IBM i stored procedures, triggers, and user defined functions? And using
ILE languages for batch and background processes? A separation of
responsibilities? A shift in application architecture that includes both?

Is there really a case to be made for Node doing it all?

If there were, there wouldn't be so many things in the toolkit that let you
interact with data areas, queues, etc. And you could run it on any
platform you wanted and simply migrate off the IBM i. Maybe that's the end
goal? Who knows. But I wouldn't want to see a node application that does
AR, Inventory, etc... You'd go blind.

It has its uses, but while we RPGers are told "you use RPG as a hammer, and
see everything as a nail" I see the similaries on the other side of things.