I regularly use and love #Typescript. I used to use #Python the most – it’s what I learned in and I am more interested in backends than frontends. I also am regularly using and really enjoying #Kotlin (so much better than #Java). But truly Typescript is bae.
#Julia is a joy to work with. Very much like Python but more powerful. If it had the library support Python or #JVM has I would probably prefer to use Julia for backends.
But Typescript really changed the game and now that’s probably my favorite language not just because of the language itself but because it has web dominance. Until I can write #WASM with Python or Kotlin or Rust, and I’m building #web applications, TS is my lingua franca.
I think I'm going to live tweet my reading Effective #Typescript. I always thought I liked the language but the more I learn about all the things they needed to do to paper over javascript's shortcomings, the more disgusted I am.
This article is all about how things are looking great for hiring Laravel devs in 2024, and I’m not seeing it.
I’ve been job-searching for 3 months, and very, very, very few of those jobs are decent-paying #PHP / #Laravel jobs. Sure, PHP/Laravel jobs exist, but most (anecdotally) pay far less than the rate others are willing to pay for #Golang, #Python, #Rust, #Elixir, #Java, #Csharp, and #TypeScript developers.
The industry does not value the output of PHP developers.
I have just been requested to commute three days a week 135 miles away each way from my home (I have not moved) to an office I was never required to attend before the pandemic starting end of September.
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Sounds like #Typescript people are asking for TypeRep support?
A lot of people in this thread seem to think that requires some sort of a runtime reflection, but it's all compile time. #Haskell as well as #PureScript erase types at compile time and TypeReps work well there.
TypeScript! What is it good for? I wouldn’t go as far as to say “absolutely nothing” like the song. I’m not trying to start a war here. It certainly is widespread, with JetBrains estimating it has nearly tripled in popularity over the past six years. However, we are scientists and using popularity as a reason for adopting a new tool is an excellent way to commit a logical fallacy.
Is there an alternative to #ipfs and #ipld out there?
Essentially I want a way to build a DAG/Merkle Tree, a content-addressable storage, where I can define the node format, can store binary data and can find data from remotes via hashes...
All of that is offered by ipfs 😭 but I don't want to write go or javascript for that, I want to be able to use #rust
I am almost at the point where I think of trying #typescript and use the JS implementation of ipfs... almost.
I am trying to use #TypeScript on normal #JavaScript files using #JSDoc, and I have to say I like it so far. It shows me errors and provides good auto completion and all of that without a build step. Just wrote a few lines yet, therefore I have to ask: Does anyone know any downsides of this approach? 🤔
For years we were talking at work about switching to #TypeScript. As it is for bigger projects the switch was not made yet.
Seeing the #JavaScript community ditching TypeScript (open source) project after project is a bit liberating.
I never was a friend of the syntax that brought a simple topic to hilarious proportions. I was never a friend of making JavaScript more complicated just for the sake of doing it.
JSDoc is a thing and it works in pretty much every editor. Most people that just want to type their stuff don't even need TypeScript.
But the TypeScript bubble is so loud, aggressive and patronizing, that new developers think they aren't aloud to just use JavaScript.
I'm glad I always reduced the priority of TypeScript in our company and now don't have to make the switch. The main reason for some colleagues was always: "Everyone is using it so we should too."
Really not a fan of all this AI nonsense going on in IDEs. #Jetbrains with an un-uninstallable AI plugin (not to mention increasingly poor performance), #zed looks promising and luckily the AI stuff can be disabled but it’s lacking features because it’s new-ish. VSCode is a nope…
Anyone has recommendations for an alternative? I mainly work with #php#laravel#rust and #typescript. Obvious choice for me is #neovim or #helix but I’m finding it such a chore to get working, not to mention tooling.
Ich finde es ja schon ein wenig witzig, wie sich die #javascript Welt im Kreis dreht. Ich hatte in den letzten 3 Jahren ein wenig Gelegenheit das mitzuerleben.
Nachdem jedes Jahr nach React und Angular noch ein Haufen Single Page Frameworks rausgekommen sind, war mit Next.js und co. plötzlich wieder Server Side Rendering angesagt, und alle gehen 10 Jahre zurück auf etwas, wo #Django und co. immer geblieben sind.