People here on HN have in the past suggested that TypeScript is the superior-in-all-ways, just-as-easy/fun-to-code-in language and should replace Python in pretty much all use cases.
Anyone have an opinion on how TS would fare in this comparison?
Anyone have an opinion on how TS would fare in this comparison?
The benefit is that JavaScript JIT compilers have a few decades of research behind them, all the way back to Smalltalk and SELF.
So in many cases you can still stay with V8 or JavaScript Core, instead of rewriting into something else, regardless of the whole rewriting into Rust that is now fashionable.
Just a little more to parse with my eyes and a little more to type with TypeScript.
But hey, with all these cool kids with their AI coding agents, reading and handwriting code may soon be obsolete!