[sampl]

A million times yes.

Apps do the same things everywhere. Why do we still need completely different languages, codebases, etc (not to mention teams of experienced hires) to deploy any little CRUD app?

Maybe we aren’t interested in fixing this because it means there’s less engineering to be done.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

[swsieber]

I'd be interested in solving it, but not with Javascript.

I think it's less about engineering costs and more about dislike of javascript. Maybe even specifically javascript tooling and electron.

A big reason people want to standardize on javascript is because it is the runtime of the Web - I can't wait for Web assembly to get even better so we can standardize on something else.

[jtreminio]

Technically the source code in OP is Typescript.

[swsieber]

But technically all javascript is also valid typescript... OTOH you can set a strict mode (I think)

[sdegutis]

Unpopular opinion time, but Apple would be wise to make JavaScript a first class language for writing Mac apps. Probably 90% of apps don’t need the raw speed of Objective C or Swift. Obviously they want to encourage people to make Mac-only apps, but even so, web technology is 100x easier to use for making Mac apps than Cocoa and Storyboards is today.