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by fantasyui-com 3434 days ago
https://nodejs.org/en/ and http://electron.atom.io/ Node is the server-side of JavaScript and Electron the cross platform desktop app (also JS and compatible with node). People have a lot to say on the subject of what is worth learning. I learned ASP/Perl/Java and I am not using them today, I still love them to bits, but there is no time/space for it today. Worth learning just may mean "what will be fun to use", meaning "what can you grow with today, that will take you to fun places in 2027". Can you see a future without the Web Browser? Can you see a Web Browser without the language that enables the Browser today? To be fair, ask is JavaScript evolving? And it is. ES6 is OK, it is the right path to take. Promise/let/const/Class and the arrow functions have fixed a lot of it. HN had RxDB on the front page today: https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb I paused when looking at "..for these plattforms" which listed: browsers, nodeJS, angular/ng2 (TypeScript), react, react-native, ionic, cordova / phonegap, nativescript, electron.

TLDR: ES6 and its surrounding environment.