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Is TypeScript the only language your company needs?
- sne11ius 7y agoShort answer: no. Long answer: The title ist ridiculous, I refuse to even open the link. Yes, I know this community favors more substantial comments, but this one made me angry.
- moveax 7y agoThanks, exactly my thoughts. At my work we wouldn't be able to serve our legacy and non-legacy codebases if we could only use typescript. Yeah, you can only use it if you start new. But if company exists some time longer you can't only rely on TS
- xenospn 7y agoThank you for vocalizing my thoughts.
- robbrit 7y agoFits perfectly with Betteridge's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... tl;dr: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
- colonelrascals 7y agoThank you, Thank you, Thank you!
- smt88 7y agoI work with a company that uses TS for their Node back-end and also their React front-end. It works great. They absolutely love it, and new people don't really need any training. That said, security is a constant pain due to the npm ecosystem.
- willsaar 7y agoThanks! Interesting to hear about the experience.
- craftyguy 7y agoShort answer: No. Long answer: Fuck no.
- veidr 7y agoDepends. Is 100% of your company's business doing contract development writing CRUD apps in Angular? If so, then sure. Otherwise, YMMV. See also: "Are semi-polished rocks the only implement your ass-wiping needs?" and: "Is Medium the only Internet publishing mechanism your writing needs?"
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- TimTheTinker 7y agoJavaScript (and TypeScript by extension) is making incredible inroads these days - no doubt about that. Imagine if Perl had been used in early browsers instead of JavaScript -- it would have become ubiquitous in the early 2000s. But I predict the pendulum will begin swinging the other way as new toolchains around WebAssembly appear and grow in popularity. We'll see a resurgence of interest in novel/niche languages, and eventually another language (with a WebAssembly target and a small JavaScript runtime for the web) may come out on top.
- crudbug 7y agoCan be, if the TypeScript team adds native .NET CLR and WASM support.
- willsaar 7y agoI'm not too familiar with the Microsoft platform, but you'd think they would have great TypeScript support as they came up with the language! Then again, you may not want to use TS for everything even if you could...