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People here on HN have in the past suggested that TypeScript is the superior-in-all-ways, just-as-easy/fun-to-code-in language and should replace Python in pret
by gcanyon 7mo ago
People here on HN have in the past suggested that TypeScript is the superior-in-all-ways, just-as-easy/fun-to-code-in language and should replace Python in pretty much all use cases.
Anyone have an opinion on how TS would fare in this comparison?
- 0xpgm 7mo agoAs a mostly Python programmer and partly TypeScript programmer, my subjective thought is that a bit more 'noise' with TypeScript than Python. Just a little more to parse with my eyes and a little more to type with TypeScript. But hey, with all these cool kids with their AI coding agents, reading and handwriting code may soon be obsolete!
- pjmlp 7mo agoTypescript is basically a JavaScript linter. The benefit is that JavaScript JIT compilers have a few decades of research behind them, all the way back to Smalltalk and SELF. So in many cases you can still stay with V8 or JavaScript Core, instead of rewriting into something else, regardless of the whole rewriting into Rust that is now fashionable.