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Exactly. The frameworks aren't there yet but I think Typescript is pretty much ideal for web dev. We're still using dynamic languages for web dev for mostly leg
by cageface 6y ago
Exactly. The frameworks aren't there yet but I think Typescript is pretty much ideal for web dev. We're still using dynamic languages for web dev for mostly legacy reasons now.
- cies 6y agoNot sure if "ideal" is a good choice of word here. We dont know what's still coming. It surely has some flaws (many inherited from JS). There is stuff like ReasonML/Elm/PureScript that seems more ideal to me from a pure language (not eco sys, job/talent market, etc) perspective.
- cageface 6y agoYeah sure there are many better languages than TS in an absolute sense but TS is the only one I see with the momentum to displace the current incumbents.
- te_chris 6y agoIt's still a single threaded run time. There's one platform that's ideal for web, BEAM, but unfortunately it doesn't have a strongly typed language. Elixir and Erlang are both great languages though.
- Multicomp 6y agoI can't speak to whether or not the BEAM is ideal for the web, but I will say I've been watching the Gleam project very closely because having static typing with the BEAM is a dream of mine.