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Jan Wedel

Jup. That’s why I explicitly mentioned backend programming. ;)

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leob

Yup ... but Javascript gets used on the backend too, obviously ... Node/Express ;)

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Jan Wedel

True :) trying to erase that from my brain whenever I can 😜

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leob

Haha, you're not a "JS backend" fan I see ... I can sympathize with that, I'm using node/express on a few projects but quite often I ask myself "WHY ... ?"

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Jan Wedel

Yup, I'm not a "JavaScript for anything" fan  😇
We're using TypeScript for UI Code, Java in the backend.

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leob

Wise decision, saving yourself a lot of trouble ... yes and classical threads are fine for the majority of purposes