What is the best typed language for back end web development?

Re:What is the best typed language for back end web developm... by _benj on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:17PM (#28623281)

If you are familiar with it TypeScript could be a good choice.

Language preferences are very personal but I personally like Golang. It's kind of like a "batteries included" language and deploying Go, which is copying a binary to a server is awesome!

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Re:What is the best typed language for back end web developm... by maattdd on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:10AM (#28626496)

It's true if you don't have any other files such as HTML templates or CSS or whatever; which is fairly rare (don't even get my started on stuff like Packer which embed binary content inside the binary executable...).

Nowadays, deploying any project should just be one docker build . away whatever the language.

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Re:What is the best typed language for back end web developm... by henhouse on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:45AM (#28653580)

Is the embedding necessarily a bad thing? I run a site entirely using Go templates and packr to embed the site’s files and it only adds a few MB. Latest version of Go has a built-in way to embed files now through a comment syntax.

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