Post #1063945
2026-04-04 15:08 UTC
Replies (3)
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@Doridian@furry.engineer 2026-04-08 17:28
@petafloppa I love TypeScript. Mainly for my own sanity as it prevents a lot of silly fox mistakes. I don't like plain JS anymore because it's just harder for me to use at this point. But TS is very fun and very fox.
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@megadec@aus.social 2026-04-08 23:04
@petafloppa this has probably already been said, but the main beef from a language design perspective is it doesn't like to tell you when something's wrong, so it lulls people into a false sense of security. sure it'll look like everyone's getting things up and running faster, because of course lol. if it's not that critical that you know something's gone wrong with what you wrote, then fine
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@alloyed@chitter.xyz 2026-04-12 16:00
@petafloppa@meow.social :0 now learning my opinion is a 2% opinion i feel obligated to explain I'm a game developer instead of a web developer; I've had direct experience with lua and js in basically the same role as "way to write scripts in a codebase that's primarily C++". I think there are reasons to like either or both in that role! with mildly different tradeoffs. In terms of dynamic language design, there are definitely warts in the js spec but I think modern JS has a lot going for it that other dynamic languages don't (including and especially typescript) lots of web ecosystem javascript is really really bad but the web itself is pretty good, so you can just avoid that and be happy tbh