They should be alright in terms of adding new features. And if Node.JS hits scalability issue? well tough luck I suppose.
I see that JVM is a very serious contender but as already noted: License issue. And let me add this: I'm betting my ass that there's the "I don't want to write Java" whisperers as well. Now now, don't BS me. I know how the so-called "engineers" think of Java these days. Sure, you could use Clojure, Scala, or JRuby. But seeing the competitor is Node.JS, pretty easy choice don't you think?
My experience writing JS code for Node.JS based platform (ExpressJS, etc) is that there's a bigger chance that you'll write more code. Code to make the code more modular (sounds weird isn't it?). Code to make sure you work-around the warts of JS. Each line of code should be highly scrutinized due to JS warts.
This thread is going to be a typical fun nerds-fight. I guarantee you. I'm going to grab a popcorn and watch nerds doing keyboard slamming.
If you're a good front-end JS developers but never ever wrote a minimum reusable JS library, you've got a lot to learn before diving to JS.
As long as the code is waaay more modular than this: https://github.com/marijnh/CodeMirror2/blob/master/lib/codem...
They should be alright in terms of adding new features. And if Node.JS hits scalability issue? well tough luck I suppose.
I see that JVM is a very serious contender but as already noted: License issue. And let me add this: I'm betting my ass that there's the "I don't want to write Java" whisperers as well. Now now, don't BS me. I know how the so-called "engineers" think of Java these days. Sure, you could use Clojure, Scala, or JRuby. But seeing the competitor is Node.JS, pretty easy choice don't you think?
My experience writing JS code for Node.JS based platform (ExpressJS, etc) is that there's a bigger chance that you'll write more code. Code to make the code more modular (sounds weird isn't it?). Code to make sure you work-around the warts of JS. Each line of code should be highly scrutinized due to JS warts.
This thread is going to be a typical fun nerds-fight. I guarantee you. I'm going to grab a popcorn and watch nerds doing keyboard slamming.