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jongjong ◴[20 Oct 24 21:54 UTC] No.41898801[source]▶

I also love JavaScript.

It's true, it has some really bad parts but you can avoid them.

If I could design the perfect language for myself, it would have the syntax of JavaScript and the portability of JavaScript but it would use Python's strong duck typing approach.

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singpolyma3 ◴[20 Oct 24 22:09 UTC] No.41898893[source]▶

>>41898801 #

JavaScript isn't really all that portable? Heck just making it run on the different JS engines and runtimes is a big pain sometimes

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1. o11c ◴[20 Oct 24 22:54 UTC] No.41899152[source]▶

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I can't even figure out how to write typescript that conditionally uses browser-only or node-only libraries depending on which environment it's in. My current best guess is to write 2 completely independent typescript projects that happen to point to the same source files?

Let me cross-compile a C++ project any day ...

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Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages