Ask HN: Changing my mind about JavaScript

Post by antifa » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 6:33 PM UTC

serial_dev wrote: post #31

aswerty wrote: post #19

Static types are sanity when the people and years keep increasing. It isn't at all important in small one man projects since most of your defined types are in your head in any case. There is nothing wrong with JavaScript as a language beyond it's, originally questionable, foundations that have since been iterated upon (much like PHP). As a massive fan of static typed languages. There is no denying that dynamic typed…

I often hear people say this, but in my opinion, static types save a ton of trial and error and help you out even for a 20 LoC script.

Post by iamcreasy » Fri, Aug 16, 2024, 4:18 AM UTC

rauschma wrote: post #3

I have used many languages in my nearly 40 years as a programmer (Scheme, C++, Java, Python, Haskell, OCaml, Rust, etc.) and still enjoy JavaScript: It’s decent as a language and there is so much you can do with it. Tips: • If you like static typing, you’ll want to use TypeScript. It’s more work to set up, but it catches many bugs, especially subtle ones where JavaScript’s semantics are not intuitive. • I learned a l…