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Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime by bbkane on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:41PM (#50446702)
TypeScript has fewer competitors for the frontend than C# does for the backend
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Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime by raincole on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:45PM (#50446731)
https://gist.github.com/matthiasak/c3c9c40d0f98ca91def1

JavaScript is one of the most common compile targets. "Who's the better JavaScript" was the most contested field a decade ago. These are not just toy languages - Facebook has Flow and Google has Dart. Both companies are far more web-adjacent than Microsoft. Yet Typescript won.

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