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TypeScript is good as a language. You can't generate static binaries out of it (except Docker images) and that itself is a deal breaker.
I'd love to see someone develop a compiler for TypeScript that got, say, Ocaml-like performance. There's a bunch of reasons why that'd be tough though - you'd probably want a language very-similar-to-but-not-quite-like-TypeScript.
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TypeScript is good as a language. You can't generate static binaries out of it (except Docker images) and that itself is a deal breaker.
I'd love to see someone develop a compiler for TypeScript that got, say, Ocaml-like performance. There's a bunch of reasons why that'd be tough though - you'd probably want a language very-similar-to-but-not-quite-like-TypeScript.
I've heard this story be accounted to Gauss, not Euler.
It is a bit unclear to me why somebody who rejects C++ because "I once spent an entire year in the heaven of C++, walking around in a glorious daze of std::vector and RAII, before one day snapping out of it and realizing that I was just spawning complexity that is unrelated to the problem at hand." (which I can absolutely agree with!) is picking Rust from all options. If there is a language that can rival C++ in term…
I am a fan of Rust but it’s definitely a terse language.
However there are definitely signs that they have thought about making it as readable as possible (by omitting implicit things unless they’re overwritten, like lifetimes).
I’m reminded also about a passage in a programming book I once read about “the right level of abstraction”. The best level of abstraction is the one that cuts to the meat of your problem the quickest - spending a significant amount of time rebuilding the same abstractions over and over (which, is unfortunately often the case in C/C++) is not actually more simple, even if the language specifications themselves are simpler.
C codebases in particular, to me, are nearly inscrutable unless I spend a good amount of time unpicking the layers of abstractions that people need to write to make something functional.
I still agree that Rust is a complex language, but I think that largely just means it’s frontloading. a lot of the understanding about certain abstractions.
Someone really needs to show Nim to the author :). It checks all of their boxes and then some
It is a bit unclear to me why somebody who rejects C++ because "I once spent an entire year in the heaven of C++, walking around in a glorious daze of std::vector and RAII, before one day snapping out of it and realizing that I was just spawning complexity that is unrelated to the problem at hand." (which I can absolutely agree with!) is picking Rust from all options. If there is a language that can rival C++ in term…
Fair, but this relative. C++ has 50 years of baggage it needs to support--and IMO the real complexity of C++ isn't the language, it's the ecosystem around it.
Odin has been really growing on me lately as a language that checks all of those boxes. String types, first class allocators, built in tests, a batteries included philosophy, and ease of use are some of the things that really drew me towards it. I really wanted to like rust and I wrote a few different small toy projects in it. At some point knowledge of the language becomes a blocker rather than knowledge the problem…
Over the last year I’ve started to write every new project using it. On windows, on linux and mac.
It is honestly a wonderful language to work with. Its mature, well designed, has a lot of similarities to rust. Has incredible interop with C, C++, Objective-C and even Java as of this year which feels fairly insane. It also is ergonomic as hell and well understood by LLM’s so is easy to get into from a 0 starting point.
This hits close to home. TypeScript is also my language of choice for 90% of the software I write. I agree with the author that TypeScript is very close to the perfect level of abstraction, and I haven't seen another language with a type system that's nearly as enjoyable to use. Of course, TS (any by extension JS) obviously has its issues/complications. Bun solves a lot of the runtime-related issues/annoyances though…
Someone really needs to show Nim to the author :). It checks all of their boxes and then some