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by sfn42 203 days ago
Typescript is a band aid on the gaping gushing wound that is JavaScript. It attempts to fix one problem JS has and it doesn't really succeed.
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mythz 203 days ago
Sounds like cope. Great Type System, Language Server, IDE Integration, compiler feedback, tooling ecosystem, DX Hot Reload - all things that made it the most used programming language on GitHub.
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sfn42 203 days ago
Overcomplicated type system. Language server seems redundant to mention, everything has a language server. Everything has ide integration. Everything has decent compiler feedback. Everything has hot reloading.
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mythz 203 days ago
yes some languages have them, no they're not as good.
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BobbyJo 203 days ago
Pretty much all major languages have all of those features save hot-reloading, but that only even makes sense for UI written in an interpreted language.
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sfn42 202 days ago
There's hot reloading in .NET and Java
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BobbyJo 201 days ago
What is the use case for either of those two languages?
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