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?

  • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    8 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.

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      8 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.

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      8 months ago

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