alt Hacker NewsIf 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.
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.
I've been a professional programmer for ~20 years and worked in a variety of languages on a variety of different types of projects, and Typescript with Bun is mostly just fine. It lacks some low level primitives I'd like to have available for certain projects (e.g. Go channels), and the FFI interface isn't as nice as I'd like, but it's basically serviceable for for a very broad range of problems.
You should still know a language like Rust or Zig for systems work, and if you want to work in ML or data management you probably can't escape Python, but Typescript with Bun provides a really compelling development experience for most stuff outside that.