alt Hacker NewsWhy do you think it sucks?
I used to dislike JavaScript a lot after learning it and PHP, then using languages like C#. Then TypeScript came along making JS much easier to live with, but has actually become quite nice in some ways.
If you use deno as your default runtime, it's almost Go-like in its simplicity when you don't need much. Simple scripts, piping commands into the REPL, built-in linting, testing, etc. It's not that bad!
Of course you're welcome to your opinion and we'd likely agree about a lot of what's wrong with it, but I guess I feel a bit more optimistic about TS lately. The runtime is improving, they've got great plans for it, it's actually happening, and LLMs aren't bad at using it either. It's a decent default for me.
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Not OP, I use TS but only because it’s the only option. TS is a build your own typing sandbox, more than enough rope to hang yourself.
Coming from typing systems that are opinionated, first class citizens of their languages, it doesn’t stand up.
I think it sucks because it transpiles to JavaScript and is an interpreted language. Users have to resolve the dependencies themselves and have the correct runtime. I definitely prefer my CLI tools be written in a compiled language with a single binary.