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> When did you start web development? Serious question The question wasn't addressed to me, but I'll answer anyway. I started in 1993 and released some widely
by brlewis 6y ago
> When did you start web development? Serious question
The question wasn't addressed to me, but I'll answer anyway. I started in 1993 and released some widely used web software in 1994.
In your last paragraph you list 13 technologies that supposedly "were all here to stay". If you asked me during the heyday of each technology whether it was here to stay, I would have answered "no" to 12 of them, and "I'm not sure" to meteor. I would have been wrong about Bootstrap because it appears to have been here to stay. I would have been similarly wrong about PHP and Wordpress. My bias appears to be to think things are not here to stay.
TypeScript is here to stay. The value proposition is just too good. And the design decisions have been good enough that it won't be replaced by a better implementation of the same ideas, as happened with several of the technologies you listed. It will go away only when JavaScript goes away, which won't be for a long time (sorry WASM).
- wolco 6y agoIs TypeScript here to stay? It seems popular with frontend dev who like react. Not sure the general development community has bought in. React hasn't reached jquery status yet. It does seem like it will be here forever but the next generation of frontend tools will look very different. Will react be amoung them? It's hard to make that jump because React is so great now why change it to match the next fad? But if they skip all fads will they miss the boat. Is react good enough to say we can stop working on it? I don't think we know what react will end up like. It's doubtful it will be around in 20 years like php. I wouldn't bet on facebook being around after laws are passed limiting how they profit.
- brlewis 6y agoAngular went all-in on TypeScript in a way that React still hasn't. The React crowd is the general development community, and TypeScript has expanded into it.
- wolco 6y agojQuery is still tops in usage in the general development community. But perhaps the frontend developer community has accepted typescript.