Godfred Kofi

Welcome David!

Nope, the book discusses new features in ES2015 and later. It doesn't use any javascript framework in particular, but it touches basic tooling that will be useful for JS developers.

You can write web applications using scala's play framework, and for writing enterprise applications too just as you can do with Java.

If you work with Big Data tools, it would be worth it to know Scala. A lot of Big Data and Stream processing tools out there are written in Scala, such as Apache Kafka or Spark.

I took a glance at the Manning page, and you don't have to be an 'expert' per se, but you should be comfortable reading and writing pre-ES6 code.

I actually think ECMAScript is a more appropriate name. Reminds me of the time when someone's app was taken down because it had 'JavaScript' in the title, thanks to Oracle: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8d0bg2/oracle_owns_javascript_so_apple_is_taking_down_my/

Microservices can be written in absolutely any language. I believe that JavaScript was chosen because of its strong ecosystem and how accessible and readable it is to other developers.

Welcome Richard!

Welcome to CodeRanch!!

Can the expressive power of DSLs(Domain Specific Languages) in Kotlin be extended for Android Development? What are some of the possible use-cases?