Re: Rise of Node

Sorry, this started as I hijack of the "What forum is best for a Tope and Node question?" that I thought would be good form to split off.

I'm a staff dev in an RPGLE shop. I enjoy learning new things but haven't found another server language that would justify the enormous cost of production implementation.



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From: Bradley Stone [mailto:bvstone@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 4:02 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Rise of Node

Ah.. I must have missed another discussions somewhere.

Actually, I get a lot of custom work, as does Aaron. Aaron is very fluent in the new technologies and excited about them! So we may each see different the best way to solve an issue.

But recently I was "forced" to write a solution for a customer using NodeJS. And I am liking it. :) The customer would have preferred and RPG solution because they realize their programmer could take what I did with RPG and learn that... smaller learning curve once it's running.

But now because it's node, well... that either means many hours and dollars of learning for their sole programmer, or keeping me on as a consultant indefinitely. While most consultants like the former (and count on it for income), I don't... I have enough to keep me busy.

But, I love using the new stuff.. so I will pick and choose the projects and pass others on to Aaron, et all. :)