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Re:Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox by capableweb on Friday January 28, 2022 @06:09AM (#30113175)
> The team has been busy with addressing technical debt that we inherited [...] migrating to Typescript

Wow, not writing stuff in TypeScript is now considered technical debt? I knew people were already rushing to rewrite everything in TypeScript if they could, but didn't knew we'd come this far along the hype-cycle already.

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Re:Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox by Dlanv on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:10AM (#30116495)
Yes definitely. I've worked at two companies in three years spanning 250,000 employees and both companies consider writing JavaScript deprecated in favor of typescript.
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Re:Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox by eu on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:40AM (#30115972)
Perhaps because Typescript is a Microsoft baby?
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Re:Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox by mohanmcgeek on Saturday January 29, 2022 @12:32AM (#30124046)
GP manages puppeteer team at Google
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