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Yes, I'm looking forward to ES6. And I agree that Node's strength is that Javascript is truly the lingua franca of the modern web, which I why I would even bother using it.

But the value of running everywhere is also why ES6 is not a panacea. As you say, soon we won't need promises "on the server". But I want my codebase to run correctly everywhere. Promises are a bandaid that I'll need for quite a while yet.

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phillmv12y ago· 2 in thread

If you're not shipping your js code to the browser, then it's frankly kinda silly to write it on the server.

ulisesrmzroche12y ago

No one pay attention to this dude. Of course it isn't silly. Plenty of people build their servers with JS and put them into production.

twic12y ago

Plenty of people build their servers with PHP and put them into production. It is still germane to ask if this is silly.

for LANG in Java Scala Ruby Python C C++ Groovy Clojure; do s/PHP/$LANG/; done

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