Re:TypeScript support in Electron
by bcherny on Sunday June 04, 2017 @05:26AM
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> It seems inevitable to me that eventually (might take decades), Haskell-level type systems will be the norm
That would be exciting, but I can't help but wonder if FP is just a matter of taste. We had Smalltalk and ML in the 70s, C++ and Erlang in the 80s, Java and Haskell in the 90s, and now it feels like all the best languages at least nod to a multi-paradigm approach: Scala, Swift, Python, JavaScript, C#, Rust, etc. The right tool for the right job, you know?
> and people will learn them in highschool
I'm actually working on a book along these lines! Look for it on HN in a few months :)
That would be exciting, but I can't help but wonder if FP is just a matter of taste. We had Smalltalk and ML in the 70s, C++ and Erlang in the 80s, Java and Haskell in the 90s, and now it feels like all the best languages at least nod to a multi-paradigm approach: Scala, Swift, Python, JavaScript, C#, Rust, etc. The right tool for the right job, you know?
> and people will learn them in highschool
I'm actually working on a book along these lines! Look for it on HN in a few months :)