I don't see a custom language ever breaking into the mainstream unfortunately. You just can't resist an entire ecosystem when the ecosystem is making good moves as a whole. Typescript is a revolution, the dev experience is really good. There are some promising bundlers like Parcel/Pundle that combined with some more mature HMR solutions will really push things forward too.
I'm much more excited on the IDE side now. I think VSCode will start to push really powerful updates and that will really make a huge difference day to day for many developers.
The other big thing that needs to improve is out of the box is databases. Something easy to deploy, with shared models between front/backend and that scales. Even a great layer over SQL. We have Firebase, but it's unfortunate Rethink and Parse went away. Pouch is languishing. Mongo seems to have something new but it's hosted only (?).
Re:Rubylike Frontend [video]
by bpicolo on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:40AM
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Clojure/Clojurescript is an interesting ecosystem in these regards. You get your shared models and lisps are pretty good at being their own form of custom syntax. It's a pleasant ecosystem with really good tooling support
I don't see a custom language ever breaking into the mainstream unfortunately. You just can't resist an entire ecosystem when the ecosystem is making good moves as a whole. Typescript is a revolution, the dev experience is really good. There are some promising bundlers like Parcel/Pundle that combined with some more mature HMR solutions will really push things forward too.
I'm much more excited on the IDE side now. I think VSCode will start to push really powerful updates and that will really make a huge difference day to day for many developers.
The other big thing that needs to improve is out of the box is databases. Something easy to deploy, with shared models between front/backend and that scales. Even a great layer over SQL. We have Firebase, but it's unfortunate Rethink and Parse went away. Pouch is languishing. Mongo seems to have something new but it's hosted only (?).