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> There's nothing inherently wrong with the language that prevents you from writing sufficiently complex and reliable systems to power something like a shopping cart, or anything else for that matter.

In other words, it's Turing complete. That's great but not exactly an argument for using JS server-side so much as a reason why it is possible. I love JS, but I also know what it was designed for.




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