I was talking to my manager the other day, discussing the languages we are using at $dayjob. He kind of offhandedly said that he thinks TypeScript is a temporary fad and soon everything will go back to using JavaScript. He doesn’t like that it’s made by Microsoft either.

I’m not a frontend developer so I don’t really know, but my general impression is that everything is moving more and more towards TypeScript, not away from it. But maybe I’m wrong?

Does anyone who actually works with TypeScript have any impression about this?

  • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Dynamic typing is not a fad.

    Python is older than Java, older than me. It is still going strong.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Python also has a statically typed option these days.

      Edit: Previously said “strongly” instead of “statically”

          • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Ah, gotcha, thanks! I’d have loved a strongly-typed option.

            The static typing system is slowly getting there, but many useful Python patterns can’t be expressed yet. You can, for example, write a function that appends an item to a generic tuple - but you can’t concatenate two tuples. I really hope they keep expanding on the system!

    • hascat@programming.devEnglish
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      6 months ago

      This just blew my mind. I had always assumed Java was older. I started writing hobby projects in Java in the 90s. I don’t think I heard about Python until the early 2000s.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      “Strong”… how many actual projects run on python?

      Half of the internet ( backend) runs on java, banking, your government systems, etc.

      It’s not a fad, it’s just unusable for anything other than research project and small time scripting, which to be fair, it’s what it’s designed for.

      • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        You have no idea. Python (and Ruby) are used widely in the industry. Large parts of YouTube are written in Python, and large parts of GitHub are written in Ruby. And every major tech company is using Python in their offline data pipelines.

        I know of systems critical to the modern web that are written in Python.

      • idefix@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        I work in investment banking environments (calculations). Python is everywhere. Java and C++ as well.