Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional?
Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional?
I was talking to my manager the other day, discussing the languages we are using at $dayjob. He kind of offhandedly said that he thinks TypeScript is a temporary fad and soon everything will go back to using JavaScript. He doesn't like that it's made by Microsoft either.
I'm not a frontend developer so I don't really know, but my general impression is that everything is moving more and more towards TypeScript, not away from it. But maybe I'm wrong?
Does anyone who actually works with TypeScript have any impression about this?
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If you dont know the difference between software and script I am not sure I can explain it to you...
That distinction is not relevant at all in this discussion.
But hey, I think that's one I know: should count as a strawman.
How is it not relevant? This is my comment you are replying to
It's not a fad, it's just unusable for anything other than research project and small time scripting, which to be fair, it's what it's designed for.
I'm sorry, apparently I missed that because of your dismissal of YouTube.
To make up for it I have another small scripting example for you: the Instagram backend runs on Python, too.
So, to my example of critical, important infrastructure of government and banking running on Java, your reply is, youtube and instagram.
That's lit mate, no cap, frfr. (Sorry I am not that familiar with your gen's slang)
No, I'm not going to follow your logical retreat any longer. You said
it's [Python] just unusable for anything other than research project and small time scripting
You were presented with not small but big time scripting and two of the largest and most popular modern web platforms of the world (BTW I neither use nor like those myself but that's, as mentioned, irrelevant) and still cannot admit you're wrong, so I don't think you would even if I dug out some examples in "serious" fields (apparently building trillion dollar companies on such platforms isn't serious enough).
Also never assume generations. According to social media demographics, odds are I'm older than you.
And my example of knowing critical systems for the web written in Python is somehow different from your argument?
What a joke