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SlashData: Rust sees fastest growth, JavaScript still dominates (www.developer-tech.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (46 children)

It's because it's a great language. Legitimately cannot understand why anyone would dislike it, especially with the the ES5+ editions and the advent of Typescript.

I started with C#, and have used Python, Java, PHP, and Ruby in professional capacities and still find Typescript to be my favourite by a significant margin.

[–] arendjr 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

As much as people like to make fun of JS/TS, I think you’re right, especially compared to the languages you mentioned. It’s my second-favorite language after Rust.

I think I would put Swift above it as well, except I don’t really use it since it’s too domain-specific in practice.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The newest iteration of the language might be okay, but the ecosystem is an absolute mess.

Working with npm projects is always a pain, everything changes all the time for no reason, and often enough in subtle ways you can't anticipate.

Plus, there's just an army of not very good and/or inexperienced developers vomiting their incompetence into the ecosystem.

Languages are not isolated. Java doesn't force abstractFactoryBuilders, yet hundreds of developers follow that pattern. So Java in practice is rather verbose.

[–] arendjr 2 points 4 months ago

I absolutely agree with you. If I can avoid NPM I will indeed do so. Sometimes that means using Deno, but sometimes it can be a valid reason to avoid using the language altogether. And sometimes we have to suck it up 🤷‍♂️

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