Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Rise of Node

I never said "nobody".

I'd say that most everyone working on IBMi has a large suite of legacy apps written in things like RPG, COBOL or Java. The new kid on the block is Node (or PHP, Python, RoR, etc). Doing business logic in one of those "legacy" languages isn't a stretch for them. I doubt there are very many devs doing IBMi/Node work that don't have RPG (or equivalent). I don't see people starting with a clean IBMi install to do Node.




-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Rützou [mailto:hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] [EXTERNAL] Re: Rise of Node

Justin

by that you must assume that nobody on IBM i codes UI's that today heavily depends on javascript and therefor nobody is familiar with Google V8 javascript engine that happes also to be the basic layer of server side node.js.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.



-----Original Message-----
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
IBM i hosting, starting at $157/month. litmis.com/spaces


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