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
    4·
    9 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.

    • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 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.

      • kameecoding@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        With how shit youtube is I am not sure you made a great case for python mate.

        And every major tech company is using Python in their offline data pipelines

        Thats a meaningless statement, ETL tools can execute python as part of a multi step process and then yeah they use python in their data pipeline, but the ETL tool that orchestrates it is which is the actual value add software is not written in Python it’s written in Java, I know this for a fact…

        • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          18·
          9 months ago

          With how shit youtube is I am not sure you made a great case for python mate.

          I’m not good with names about logical fallacies but that sure is one. You asked for “actual projects” and YouTube is one of the biggest and most popular platforms out there. That you personally dislike it is irrelevant.

          ETL tools can execute python as part of a multi step process and then yeah they use python in their data pipeline, but the ETL tool that orchestrates it is which is the actual value add software is not written in Python it’s written in Java

          So what’s your point, that interpreted languages don’t count because they’re interpreted? Why stop there? It’s the actual C compiler that was used to compile the JRE that brings the value here, so your ETL tool doesn’t count.

          You’re either a troll or a joke.

              • kameecoding@lemmy.world
                2·
                9 months ago

                How is it not relevant? This is my comment you are replying to

                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.

                • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  5·
                  9 months ago

                  I’m sorry, apparently I missed that because of your dismissal of YouTube.

                  To make up for it I have another small scripting example for you: the Instagram backend runs on Python, too.

                  • kameecoding@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    9 months ago

                    So, to my example of critical, important infrastructure of government and banking running on Java, your reply is, youtube and instagram.

                    That’s lit mate, no cap, frfr. (Sorry I am not that familiar with your gen’s slang)

    • idefix@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      9 months ago

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