Move over Java, JavaScript is the new WORA. Or is it?

[...]JavaScript, always crucial to in-browser applications, now works for desktop applications via technology such as the Electron framework, for mobile applications via frameworks like React Native, and for web back ends through Node.js and Deno, notes developer Shalitha Suranga, author of the Neut...

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Published in:InfoWorld.com
Main Author: Krill, Paul
Format: Trade Publication Article
Language:English
Published: San Mateo Foundry 22.03.2021
Subjects:
Applications programs
Java
JavaScript
Mobile computing
Programming languages
Project management
Servers
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Summary:[...]JavaScript, always crucial to in-browser applications, now works for desktop applications via technology such as the Electron framework, for mobile applications via frameworks like React Native, and for web back ends through Node.js and Deno, notes developer Shalitha Suranga, author of the Neutralino JavaScript/TypeScript framework. “Nowadays, whatever we can do with Java can be done with JavaScript as well,” said Suranga, a software engineer at digital products builder 99x and an Apache project management committee member. In particular, JavaScript rules the web browser, where Java applets failed to gain a foothold.