I think for most people here, that "entirely other language" they'd be adopting is Node, not RPG or Java. Those they already have and know.
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From: Aaron Bartell [mailto:aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 6:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] [EXTERNAL] Re: Rise of Node
I'm not suggesting you can't write typical "business logic" in
Javascript,
but I'm questioning the wisdom of it and your workarounds demonstrate why IMO.
I agree the decimal math isn't optimal in Javascript, but it seems like such a small thing compared to adopting an entirely other language to do the business logic (i.e. RPG, Java). While there are tools to span the gap (iToolkit), it is still a gap that needs to be crossed for each business logic call. And then there are two separate change management and deployment processes that need to be coordinated. And maintaining knowledge in both languages.
Regardless of our different views on possibilities of where business logic should be, I am curious of the following given that you have a decent amount of experience in a variety of languages...
If tasked with building an application from the ground up, what would your language stack look like?
Aaron Bartell
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