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sroussey05/03/20253 repliesview on HN

JS/TS is fine. Why switch back and forth between languages and frameworks and data models and…


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baq05/03/2025

If your axiom is ‘JS is fine’ then yeah. It isn’t, though. TS is much closer to ‘fine’, but still can’t avoid some dumb JS decisions.

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hjgjhyuhy05/04/2025

If you already know another backend language and framework, all you need to do is tell LLM or some code generator to convert your models between languages. There is very little overhead that way.

I greatly prefer Java with Spring Boot for larger backend projects.

aweiland05/04/2025

What is 0.1 + 0.2 in JavaScript. I'll give you a hint, it's not 0.3. Is that fine?

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