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That will depend on the application in question and how much of the code is directly related to the GUI.

All of the business logic , AJAX requests etc should be fairly reusable.

I know there have been plenty of times building web apps where I have had to maintain separate front-end and back-end code in different languages that does exactly the same thing.

Time can also be a factor, if you are already maintaining a web client , a mac client in obj-C and possibly an android Java client having to learn yet another language and ecosystem is probably not what you want.



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