alt Hacker NewsI'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.
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It reminds me of an older dev I met when I was just beginning who had worked even more years and said Fortran 95 was "fine". And he could use it to build pretty much anything. That doesn't mean that more powerful language features couldn't have increased his productivity (if he learned them).
I agree, nowadays working on mostly TS backend with some parts in JS written before async/await was introduced and I’m inclined to say TS is better than Python at most things bakcendy. I’m missing sqlalchemy and a sane numerical tower pretty much.