[simplotek]

> For instance, a major selling point of Node was running JS on both the client and server so you can write the code once.

What? No.

The whole point of Node was a) being able to leverage javascript's concurrency model to write async code in a trivial way, and b) the promise that developers would not be forced to onboard to entirely different tech stacks on frontend, backend, and even tooling.

There was no promise to write code once, anywhere. The promise was to write JavaScript anywhere.

[callahad]

That's the reasoned take, and yet I have strong and distinct memories of Node being sold on the basis of shared code as early as 2011. Much of the interest (and investment) in Meteor was fueled by its promise of "isomorphic JavaScript."

[imbnwa]

I mean...look at these timestamps from 7-9 years ago[0]

[0]https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[simplotek]

Isn't "isomorphic javascript" a buzzword referring to a server-side rendering technique?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_JavaScript