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Re:Rust Is Eating JavaScript by hot_gril on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:27AM (#43076185)
In common JS or Py use cases, static typing makes your code less safe, because all that extra time you spend on it is less time writing tests. Meanwhile the types won't catch any bugs even the most simple test coverage would.

Sure, JS has some quirks that language design gurus complain about, but nothing that actually matters on the job. Like, == operator is weird, oh well.

Python is rightfully king for certain things like data science, but parallelism and package management are two big messes in it. ||ism is trying to be fixed with asyncio, but it's kinda too late. You know packaging is broken because every Python repo has a Dockerfile, not something you see in JS where npm is solid.

Golang is more for different use cases. Looks good but really should have done error handling like Rust, or used exceptions.

Re:Rust Is Eating JavaScript by rednafi on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:59AM (#43080252)
> npm is solid

sure it is

Re:Rust Is Eating JavaScript by hot_gril on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:17PM (#43082922)
It's solid enough that people don't fall back to Docker.