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Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional? (feddit.dk)

submitted 7 months ago by SorteKanin@feddit.dk to c/programming@programming.dev

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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?

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A language that helps me write Javascript without writing Javascript? Nah, that ain't no fad, that's a grace from whatever god is up there.

[–] jamon@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You should check out Google Web toolkit, totally signs like your kind of thing.

Typescript is for people who hate JavaScript, for the most part. The bulk of the people who have been writing JavaScript for years and aren't Java converts are still using JavaScript and will continue to do so. The Java developers will continue writing Java, no matter what language they are programming in.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll check that out. I'm actually only writing TS temporarily for work. I'm going back to C# in a couple of weeks.