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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, usually because you've got a team of frontend folks needing to do a backend.

There's one other advantage, which is that you can have a compile-time shared model between backend and frontend. You also have that advantage with WASM, but not with a traditional backend/frontend technology split...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Compile time is my biggest issue with TypeScript. I've used JavaScript for decades with compile time measured in, what, a millisecond or two. Having to wait for TypeScript drives me nuts.