this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
265 points (98.2% liked)

Python

6471 readers
11 users here now

Welcome to the Python community on the programming.dev Lemmy instance!

πŸ“… Events

PastNovember 2023

October 2023

July 2023

August 2023

September 2023

🐍 Python project:
πŸ’“ Python Community:
✨ Python Ecosystem:
🌌 Fediverse
Communities
Projects
Feeds

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok after reading the article this is bullshit. It's only because they are counting JavaScript and Typescript separately.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Typescript being that popular is great news onto itself.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We have different concept about what great news is.

Compiling to an interpreted high level language is crazy. I just refuse to believe we haven't got a better solution to yet.

As someone who works with typescript daily, you're not wrong. It's an extremely overcomplicated glorified linter that tries and mostly succeeds in catching basic type errors. But it also provides false confidence when you concoct something that shows no errors but doesn't behave how you expect.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, they're planning JS0 and JSSugar (IIRC) so you're forced to compile anyway :D