[kjtekn]

I like how nobody has realized that typescript is classic Microsoft embrace, extend, extinguish. Oh no, they have "turned a corner". This is a different Microsoft! Haha.. they are exactly the same. Every single company has wanted to try and control JavaScript as it takes over more and more of the roles other languages used to fill.

Google failed with their new language, Microsoft is having some success. Google claimed "javascript was too slow, so we need Dart". Hmm, turns out to be complete bullshit and electron applications are now the standard way to create desktop applications. Microsoft is claiming "you need static typing", which is more bullshit.

First Microsoft embraced JavaScript, then they made TypeScript to extend it, and now there is talk of "hey why not just use c# with web assembly etc". "why not just make deno TypeScript only". "what if Chrome only ran TypeScript, would it be faster?".

With vscode->typescript->github, Microsoft is managing to gain control of the masses of mediocre developers, while the good programmers will always be elusive. A digital divide is getting bigger.

[lexicality]

The only electron app I've ever used that wasn't slow/terrible is VSCode which happens to be written in typescript by Microsoft and it still occasionally decides to use 100% of my macbook's CPU making it entirely unusable until I restart, so I'm not sure that's a very good argument.

[ravenstine]

Do you think that's actually thanks to TypeScript? From what I know, TypeScript doesn't have an inherent performance quality that makes it better than JavaScript.

[lexicality]

No, typescript has no impact on runtime performance that I know of.