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by qwerty456127 2502 days ago
Great. TypeScript doesn't feel as great for this kind of task (I mean content processing) as Python does but still feels a sufficiently reasonable alternative.

Will you also release Linux and Windows versions or is it meant to be Mac-only?
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7961636B6572 2502 days ago
There'll definitely be Windows and Linux versions, but focusing on the macOS version for the time being.
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7961636B6572 2502 days ago
Why do you think Python is better than TypeScript?
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qwerty456127 2502 days ago
Does TypeScript have BeautifulSoup? TypeScript seems very appealing to me (a C# programmer) but it also seems like Python lets you write more concise text/XML/HTML processing code and already has particularly helpful libraries for this. Also, virtually everybody writes at least some Python which makes it a perfect language for user-developed extensions.

I don't mean TypeScript is much worse. Python just is the first thing to come to my mind as "right tool for the job" when it's about textual content processing. I'm not saying "please implement Python support instead", I'm just explaining why I've mentioned Python first. TypeScript is great too.

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