Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 02:56:51 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   Well, there IS a certain v0.5 feel about it
 
   But it still Gets It Done.
 
   I like PHP because it makes the gigabuck SERVER do most of the work,
   unlike JS.
 
   Once wrote a short JS with lots of deep math/trig and string stuff in
   it - just a few lines - to punish people who didn't know the
   password. All the cooling fans would rev up to full almost instantly
>

I used CGI and FastCGI mostly, and then Node.js eventually. The server
side js did a little work but with the Esri JavaScript API the client side
did most of the heavy lifting. The backend served up GeoJSON but other
processes created it. The most work was querying the database for
historical information in a couple of applications like crime analysis.