[steverb]

The problems that can be solved using js grow large with each passing year though. I wrote a video recording and exporting app for a client this year using web technolgies (html + js + node). I couldn't have imagined that being possible 10 years ago.

[elicox]

I am not talking about this. What I means it's when you have to deal with more complex interaction, between different systems, old technologies, ...

What you say it's true, JS it's going to evolve in the next years until to convert in something totally different, you will see. Some people call that reinvent the wheel.

I am not against JS at all, I just dont think every single problem can be resolve with that, sorry.

[rjbond3rd]

Very cool. So did your app somehow manage to do video capture on the client hardware, or did you access something equivalent to a webcam?

[steverb]

In this case, it captures and streams from the computer it is running on via a video capture card. The application is for archiving audio and video from an external box that it monitors.

The nice thing about doing it that way, is that adding the capability to stream real-time from the external box that is being monitored is as easy as opening the ports to external access.