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0 pointscies1y ago0 comments

JS is popular due to it being the only browser lang. Did you forget that?

Also: TS popularity shows that not everyone in the JS community agree with you.

For server side web dev you will find that statically typed langs (Java, Kotlin, C#, Go) are a big chunk of the pie. Sure it also comes down to taste, but if you work in a large team, having stronger types can greatly help to keep the codebase in shape. (better IDE refactor tools, clearer for noob, harder to hide/ check in rubbish to git)

If you are afraid by obscurity, have a look at Kotlin!

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leptons1y ago· 3 in thread

Typescript is still nowhere near as popular as Javascript, and likely never will be. It's overkill for the vast number of uses of Javascript.

ciesOP1y ago

JS's uses have been growing steadily. The language was clearly not "designed" (I saw a talk about the first 10d of JS, little actual designing happened).

TS is to the rescue when you have a big JS project, because that's what JS is not good at: big projects and large teams.

leptons1y ago

Except big JS projects with large teams existed well before Typescript ever did, and it never stopped anyone from producing good results. Typescript really isn't making anything possible that wasn't possible before Typescript existed.

phatskat1y ago

I’d love a link to this talk if you happen to have it handy!

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