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by bfrydl
2377 days ago
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I find it really annoying how JavaScript is treated on developer forums like this one. Why is it that when the same exact things are done in a typical language it's called “tooling” but in JavaScript it's “duct tape hacks on top of hacks”? Don't get me wrong, my favorite language is Rust, but pretending the JavaScript ecosystem is unusable doesn't make you cool. I can be extremely productive in TypeScript. |
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What I consider hacks is the hundreds of different tools and dialects of JS that are used to bend JS into doing something it wasn’t really designed for.
JS is fine in the browser, and TypeScript is also fine there because you don’t really have the choice to run anything different (although Web Assembly might change the game soon). But on the backend you have the privilege to pick between dozens of different languages that are better suited to the task and support the features you want out of the box without layering hacks on top. Why not just go with one of those?