• MrGG@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    That is disturbing. From my perspective, anyway. There are already so many great (and more appropriate) stacks for web backends, why Frankenstein a Frankenstein into it?

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      Well, usually because you’ve got a team of frontend folks needing to do a backend.

      There’s one other advantage, which is that you can have a compile-time shared model between backend and frontend. You also have that advantage with WASM, but not with a traditional backend/frontend technology split…

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        1 year ago

        Compile time is my biggest issue with TypeScript. I’ve used JavaScript for decades with compile time measured in, what, a millisecond or two. Having to wait for TypeScript drives me nuts.

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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      🤷 people like nodejs and people like type hinting and IDE reflection. Typescript helps a lot with that