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As a Typescript developer, I have long retired my use of JavaScript… and won’t touch it unless I have to (in which case I’m likely converting it). And I absolu
by FractalHQ 4y ago
As a Typescript developer, I have long retired my use of JavaScript… and won’t touch it unless I have to (in which case I’m likely converting it). And I absolutely love Typescript.
JavaScript is a solved problem thanks to TS, and in my opinion, should almost never be used unless strictly necessary in 2022.
The fact that JS is still used for new projects on purpose bothers me about as much as the fact that only one comment in this thread mentions Typescript so far…
- swatcoder 4y agoTypeScript is great: a tremendous improvement over JavaScript and a boon to web development since it’s so easy to transition into it. But Crockford is looking farther out here. Languages like E are designed for safe concurrency first, which is going to be a huge deal as we continue to see an explosion of processing cores on the client end and highly distributed backend deployments through infrastructure like serverless platforms. You can implement that model with TypeScript and some discipline, but languages that treat it as central part of their design can require less discipline and can provide smarter automated optimizations. I don’t know that E is going to establish itself in that space, but it’s the space we’re headed towards and TypeScript isn’t quite the most natural thing to use there.