@jgantunes on twitter and github
Coordinator @ SINFO
Software Engineer @ YLD
"It's Java, but for the browser!"
"It's only used to animate stuff in your website..."
"Only used on the frontend..."
Oh you couldn't be more wrong!
"JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language. It has been standardized in the ECMAScript language specification."
Wait... Whaat!?
Fully fledged technology.
Capable of running almost everywhere (your browser is just the begining!)
In fact, tons of enterprises run backend services in JavaScript through NodeJS