How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me became a TypeScript fan

Re:How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me bec... by blacktriangle on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:19PM (#26320053)

Clojurescript is the worst offender on that list from the point of view of "needlessly complicated." I can't imagine a dependency I want less than the Google Closure tools. I swear Closure is probably the only tool with fewer devs who understand it than autoconf.

I'm not critiquing any of those languages, in a perfect world any of them in the browser would have been preferable to Javascript. The issue is the tower of dependancies we are building, and you have to stop somewhere.

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Re:How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me bec... by smnplk on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @01:33AM (#26325431)

With advanced optimisiation turned on, the Clojurescript compiler will not include any of the Closure code that you do not use. But my point was about language superiority. For me it's obvious why Clojurescript wins the client side.

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Re:How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me bec... by blacktriangle on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:03PM (#26331216)

My issues is not the runtime dependency but the development dependancy. As the production apps I am responsible for keep getting older and older my opinions on ruthlessly cutting decencies get stronger and stronger.

Somewhere there's probably an optimal expected lifespan of a program where the line between preferring a better language and fewer development dependencies is crossed, but I'm also starting to learn that software stays around years longer than I ever anticipated.

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