Along with a host of other server side "languages" - ASP, PERL/CGI... all this has been done before. Just as we've come full circle on infrastructure where we were trying to eke every ounce of performance out of memory and CPU cycles because supply was short, now we do so because we're charged by the cycle, memory overhead, bandwidth we're beginning to recycle concepts like server side rendering... which has been done since as long as PERL/CGI existed back in the 90s.

It's funny how we just keep reusing the same ideas and calling them new... it makes me wonder why the history of relevant technologies aren't taught in software development classes so we can actually forge a path forward instead of keep doing the same things over and over again...