[dhorthy]

hah thanks dude! I am very bullish on TS as the long term thing, Not to turn this into a language vs language thread but I spend a lot of time thinking about why ppl struggle so much with python...so far I came up with

concurrency abstractions keep changing (still transitioning / straddling sync+threads vs. asyncio) - this makes performance eng really hard

package management somehow less mature than JS - pip been around way longer than npm but JS got yarn/lockfiles before python got poetry

the types are fake (also true of typescript, I think this one is a wash)

the types are fake and newer. typing+pydantic is kinda bulky vs. TS having really strong native language support (even if only at compile time)

virtual environments!?! cmon how have we not solved this yet

wtf is a miniconda

VSCode has incredible TS support out of the box, python is via a community plugin, and not as many language server features

[exhaze]

I am okay with a counterfactual alternate future where some disproportionately powerful entity squeezes Python out of the market: Big TypeScript - funded by a PAC. Offshore accounts. Culprit: random rich Googler who lost an argument to Guido Van Rossum 10 years ago.

[dhorthy]

lol this is why i come to this site

[sandGorgon]

100%. I build edgechains (https://github.com/arakoodev/EdgeChains/) and a super JS/TS maxi for genai applications.