Hey science tweeps! Anybody in science coding mostly/a lot in #JavaScript outside the browser?


#NodeJS
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See other bit of thread for some people who do use it. I'm curious because I've recently done a project which was mostly Python, some C...
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and some javascript. It made me realise there's tons of javascript that does stuff I really need for some of my projects.
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Cool. Yeah Im aware of Node and Electron, I was mostly wondering about applications for sci.
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I've used JS a good bit, but just much prefer Python, especially for science. It does definitely have its uses!
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I know the advantage of Node is primarily to better sync frontend and backend, and its nice to deal w/ a single lang.
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But aside from having a personal preference for JS, I'm curious what other advantages JS has purely outside of the browser- cross-platform?
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I can't really answer that because I mostly use Python. Maybe
@blahah404 can shed light.
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I've been looking into Node quite a bit recently, found this helpful http://nodeguide.com/convincing_the_boss.html …
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