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by torb-xyz 6y ago
I was going to use Django for a project, but ended up not doing so, as I was literally not able to set up my Python project correctly. For all Python's ease of use language wise it‘s ecosystem can be utterly inscrutable.
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by torb-xyz 6y ago
Microsoft _do_ have the research project Static TypeScript that does try to do this with a subset: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/static-... But your point stands I think this subset wil
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by torb-xyz 6y ago
It's the inclusion of TypeScript by default that allows it to have a much nicer developer experience compared to Node/NPM. And as others have noted: there's no downsides for those who wish to simply use straight JavaScript.
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by torb-xyz 6y ago
It doesn't really help that much with TypeScript native NPM-packages being published with JS and D.TS (TypeScript-definitions) instead of the original source, does it?)
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by torb-xyz 6y ago
First-class TypeScript support is the thing that excites me the most about this. It's so annoying when you want to navigate TypeScript code from a dependency in Node and it kicks you to a TypeScript-definition file instead of the actua
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by torb-xyz 6y ago
There already exists and experimental compiler that takes a subset of TypeScript and compiles it to native[1]. It might be able to target wasm instead of asm. Also: If I'm not entirely mistaken Microsoft initially planned to have a Typ
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by torb-xyz 6y ago
There's a pretty interesting podcast interview with the author here: https://cppcast.com/circle-language/ I find the idea of using this as a rapid testing and exploration of potential new C++ features quite intere