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I’ll mention Typescript. It elegantly improves almost unimprovable mess of JavaScript. It makes JavaScript development much more productive and pleasant. And i
by vl 2y ago
I’ll mention Typescript.
It elegantly improves almost unimprovable mess of JavaScript. It makes JavaScript development much more productive and pleasant. And it’s surprisingly powerful.
- xandrius 2y agoI agree but it's a shame we need to put a bandaid over JS instead of having a properly typed language option for the web. Now we start seeing some wasm being used but I still wouldn't use it for the whole project, so TS is the way for now.
- ativzzz 2y agoLosing decades of backwards compatibility and portability is probably not worth it
- xandrius 2y agoI heard that already over 10 years ago. Are we just going to keep at it because of sunken costs? Also having a parallel system on the side would be fine. Just something more efficient and with types please!
- vl 2y agoIf you think about it, entire web infrastructure is buzzard and inefficient. Sane design is to have some kind of bytecode for web code and some compact format instead of html. The waste of delivering this data and then executing js is enormous. And we need to pre-process and build websites and web apps before serving anyway!