Re: Express, React, Node.JS -- WEB400

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"I haven’t been near an IBMi for 6 months and surprisingly I don’t miss it."

I guess that depends on where you go. When I'm forced to do .NET/ASP.NET work, I'm constantly clicking my heels together saying "there's no place like home".

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin [mailto:kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 7:20 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Express, React, Node.JS

You could say that it was the future 10 years ago. Despite the enormous performance benefits of a plain 5250 application, most commercial scale apps that still have that as their UI come at a cost with respect to the amount of time it takes to get users up to speed with it (as it is unfamiliar to most). Companies with high attrition (call centres etc) can’t afford to spend weeks training people how to use function keys and subfiles. Add to that the diminishing number of developers who actually know how to maintain it.....

I worked on the ibm platform for over 30 years and love many aspects of it. It is still clunky though when it comes anything other than RPG and (perhaps) Java. I haven’t been near an IBMi for 6 months and surprisingly I don’t miss it.

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