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We've had the ability to use a single language across both FE and BE for quite a while now. That's not the problem.

I was talking about the time when people made the transition from VB6 to the web.

There was no single language back then. Node.js wasn't even an idea at that point.

And regardless, you've still got to learn HTML and CSS and often SQL.

In the VB6 era, you could write JScript ASP Classic pages and have JS in the browser (provided you weren't doing the more proper DCOM stuff behind the ASP pages). I worked somewhere doing that on NT4, but IIS 5 in W2K broke it somehow.

Or for really perverse IE only stuff, VBScript in ASP and VBScript in the browser.

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