Anders Hejlsberg: You Can't Maintain Large Programs in JavaScript.

Re:Anders Hejlsberg: You Can't Maintain Large Programs in Ja... by pjmlp on Monday June 04, 2012 @07:12AM (#4063444)

No, this is what people that have real life experience from large scale applications think.

I have quite some experience with most mainstream dynamic languages, and wouldn't do any large scale application with any of them.

The company I work for, does large scale enterprise consultancy projects.

This means:

- Multiple development sites;

- Some projects have up to 200 developers;

- Usually several megabytes of source code;

- Continuous Integration build systems with automatic unit and integration tests

- Usually distributed architecture

- High performance requirements

No way I would advise anyone to do develop such systems in a dynamic language, let alone in JavaScript.

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Re:Anders Hejlsberg: You Can't Maintain Large Programs in Ja... by mercurial on Monday June 04, 2012 @09:20AM (#4063835)

Maintaining a large PHP project written by idiots, in addition to a much smaller codebase in Javascript has convinced me of the importance of static typing for large-scale projects.

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