Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
by cageface on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:13AM
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Exactly. The frameworks aren't there yet but I think Typescript is pretty much ideal for web dev. We're still using dynamic languages for web dev for mostly legacy reasons now.
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Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
by cies on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:09AM
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Not sure if "ideal" is a good choice of word here. We dont know what's still coming. It surely has some flaws (many inherited from JS). There is stuff like ReasonML/Elm/PureScript that seems more ideal to me from a pure language (not eco sys, job/talent market, etc) perspective.
Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
by cageface on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:18AM
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Yeah sure there are many better languages than TS in an absolute sense but TS is the only one I see with the momentum to displace the current incumbents.
Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
by te_chris on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:00AM
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It's still a single threaded run time. There's one platform that's ideal for web, BEAM, but unfortunately it doesn't have a strongly typed language. Elixir and Erlang are both great languages though.