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by thoman23 4160 days ago
Thank you! I will never understand this push towards "isomorphism". Why do you want to use more javascript? I use javascript because I have to, not because I want to. I love being able to work in the language of my choice on the server.

Furthermore, I'm not convinced it's a good thing to blur the lines between client and server. Or in other words, I think it's a good thing for the developer to be thinking about the differences and the ramifications of code on the client vs. code on the server. The whole thing reminds me of the EJB days, where we were sold on the idea of not having to think about the implications of local vs. remote objects. In reality, no matter how you hide it in the syntax, those kinds of distinctions have consequences, and treating client code like it's server code or vice versa just seems like a bad idea to me.

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I will never understand this push towards "isomorphism"

Keep it DRY. Write once, run everywhere. Bearing in mind you have to write the application once in Javascript, it's a counter-proposal to "being able to work in the language of my choice on the server", which is to use the 1 version.