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How do you feel about TypeScript? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/programming
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Specifically, do you worry that Microsoft is going to eventually do the Microsoft thing and horribly fuck it up for everyone? I've really grown to appreciate the language itself, but I'm wary of it getting too ingrained at work only to have the rug pulled out from under us when it's become hard to back out.

Edit: not really "pulling the rug", but, you know, doing the Microsoft classic.

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[–] onlinepersona 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's nice, but it would be great if JS were replaced by WASM.

[–] RonSijm 5 points 1 year ago

Well since this is a Typescript / Microsoft kinda thread - there are replacements.. You can use C# with Blazor (from Microsoft)

And you can also compile Go and Rust to WASM (probably some other stuff as well that I'm not aware of)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then reversing sites will be so much more annoying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I'm glad that "now that wasm exists I can do web development in any language" isn't thing yet. The web would get even more clumsy than it already is. I'm glad that when I visit 5 links I don't have to download 10 different runtimes each time.

[–] onlinepersona 2 points 1 year ago

10 different runtimes? WASM what do you mean? It's byte-code for the browser. It's not like Flash or Java applets that required an external program to run.