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I know it's an oft-repeated gripe here, but Javascript has so many bizarre warts that I'd never trust it to configure my personal computing environment. https:
by mr_overalls 8y ago
I know it's an oft-repeated gripe here, but Javascript has so many bizarre warts that I'd never trust it to configure my personal computing environment.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
- omouse 8y agoWith TypeScript it's basically like Emacs-Lisp in terms of the volume of warts, if not in the same space of bizarreness.
- 5166cc9c39fa61 8y agoI would take elisp over TypeScript any day. The tooling around TypeScript is hot garbage, debugging async code is a huge time waster, and things that are trivial with dynamic binding turn into major undertakings because of the module system. Also the verbosity and reams of boilerplate.