Re:Today’s Top Tech Skills
by dehrmann on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:27PM
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> Node.js was a contender but lost steam
My guess is that Node.js either saturated the market of web developers looking to do backend, or people realized that type safety is a good thing, and JS doesn't have a good story for it.
Re:Today’s Top Tech Skills
by dehrmann on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:34PM
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But it's an extra step in the build process, you still have to decide on TypeScript, Flow, CoffeeScript, etc., and I'm not sure if the Node runtime library gets the benefits of typing.
My guess is that Node.js either saturated the market of web developers looking to do backend, or people realized that type safety is a good thing, and JS doesn't have a good story for it.