This was an interesting, thought-provoking read. But the author of the post is a member of the board of directors of the Rust Foundation. https://foundation.rus

This was an interesting, thought-provoking read. But the author of the post is a member of the board of directors of the Rust Foundation. https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/2022-03-16-news-announcing-three-new-board-members-copy/ https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/2022-03-16-news-announ... Perhaps a blind spot for Meta is they're spending time working away from PHP/Hack so as they reach for Rust (away from web-centric languages) they don't realize TypeScript has compelling reasons to choose it on the server-side: * Vercel-driven / full-stack developer innovation * ubiquity of JS/TS for tooling, innovation, etc. * fast enough to run serverless * rich ecosystem, though you do need to curate your dependencies yourself and not just let npm take you for a ride * closer to customers; since closer to the web, but with types. * no over-engineering re: borrow checker for 90% of use cases. I'm biased but I see no fundamental reason why everything doesn't converge on TypeScript in the future. C : C++/Rust (context: systems development) as JS : TS (context: all programming).