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0 pointscageface5y ago0 comments

Exactly. The frameworks aren't there yet but I think Typescript is pretty much ideal for web dev. We're still using dynamic languages for web dev for mostly legacy reasons now.

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cies5y ago

Not sure if "ideal" is a good choice of word here. We dont know what's still coming. It surely has some flaws (many inherited from JS). There is stuff like ReasonML/Elm/PureScript that seems more ideal to me from a pure language (not eco sys, job/talent market, etc) perspective.

cagefaceOP5y ago

Yeah sure there are many better languages than TS in an absolute sense but TS is the only one I see with the momentum to displace the current incumbents.

te_chris5y ago

It's still a single threaded run time. There's one platform that's ideal for web, BEAM, but unfortunately it doesn't have a strongly typed language. Elixir and Erlang are both great languages though.

Multicomp5y ago

I can't speak to whether or not the BEAM is ideal for the web, but I will say I've been watching the Gleam project very closely because having static typing with the BEAM is a dream of mine.

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