On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 15:37:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
In the JavaScript world you have various versions of
JavaScript, TypeScript, TypeScript+React, TypeScript+Angular,
they coexists. So, as long as you can easily interface between
languages it is ok.
I think language designers should focus more on creating
languages for writing libraries to use with other languages
than creating host languages. I am very unlikely to use Rust
and D as host languages (Swift, Objective-C, Python etc are
more likely).
I never understood those TypeScript people. They would learn a
*new* language, just to compile it into JavaScript?
I think the JavaScript world is doing much better at the
integration part than other platforms. There are now more and
more browser-compilers where you can write code for various
languages and have it compiled to JavaScript on the fly. Even
OCaml:
http://zhanghongbo.me/js-demo/
Maybe there are so many tools for JavaScript, because it is so
simple?
And if you are in the JavaScript-is-evil camp, it is already
obvious that there are so many tools.
In either case, they are not doing better. It is their natural
course of action.
