An app doesn’t have to rip out its backend and replace it with Node.js to use isomorphic JavaScript, essentially throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Google is testing a new vibe-coding tool called Opal, available in the U.S. through Google Labs, that lets users quickly spin up web apps with just a few prompts.

In fact, in that new survey, SO said: "For most developers, programming is web programming." That SO survey also listed popular web frameworks, with React, Angular and Vue each making the top five. So ...