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Anybody else get the feeling the author of this post really likes TypeScript?

• beefsack 12y ago
  The second half of the article sounds like a sales pitch. It would have been nice to see some thoughtful analysis based on the deltas of the languages from those rankings over 2014. All of those rankings are biased in their own ways, hence all of them being wildly different, but I think looking at how languages change across them paints an interesting picture.
• ffn 12y ago
  Well, to be fair, saying a JS code-slave (of which I am one) really likes TypeScript is like saying a malnourished man lost for a month in Death Valley sustaining only on dead maggots and his own urine really likes dining at the Home Town Buffet. He would already have been overjoyed with some coffee and harmony, yet the gods decided to give him a real meal. You won't find a single Javascript engineer who hasn't been tortured by "Undefined is not a function" or worse on a daily basis, so something that promises to liberate us from this evil is always appreciated.
  • z3t4 12y ago
    "use strict";
    • z3t4 12y ago
      I guess because of karma or something I actually got the "undefined is not a function" error today. And I had no idea what was wrong! Tried the same in NodeJS and that gave: Object has no method 'bar' So I guess it depends on what implementation of JS you use for development. Still JS is much easier to debug then assembly (compiled languages).