From Java to Javascript
In this article I want to share my experiences trying to get started with language engineering on the web while coming from Java. Although I was trying to do language engineering, I think this article can be useful to any programmer who wants to enter the world of Javascript and the Web platform.
From the JVM to the Web
I think the main problem that I had approaching the web was not considering it as a platform on the same level of the JVM. I thought of it like just adding some Javascript to a web page to have the UI for my powerful backend. However, the web has gone a long way from the simple scripts people were doing 20 years ago. It is now a platform in its own right and it needs a lot of tooling to make the amazing things it does.
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