I started out agreeing heavily with the article (yeah, javascript sucks today!), but one thing stuck out to me:
If Typescript makes Javascript so much work because the tooling discourages learning best practices, how does moving to C#, which is designed very similarly, help?
I.e. if half the cardinal sin was creating Typescript in the first place and that's part of why Javascript sucks so bad (I am inclined to agree, FWIW), how does C# then make it better?
Author is light on the details here. I do agree that strong typing systems, safety checks are preferably on backend systems-grade code, at least, but I don't think C#'s types are strong enough, for that prefer something like a Haskell-ish language, Cayenne e.g., Ada, and with strong code-re-usability. I decline to champion a particular language, I only know C# has a lot of baggage from Java/Typescript/Javascript, which it would be better without (C# is also starting to suffer from a C++-ish problem, where there are so many new and different ways to do the same thing that interoperability and "good" standards are swiftly becoming a problem).
If Typescript makes Javascript so much work because the tooling discourages learning best practices, how does moving to C#, which is designed very similarly, help?
I.e. if half the cardinal sin was creating Typescript in the first place and that's part of why Javascript sucks so bad (I am inclined to agree, FWIW), how does C# then make it better?
Author is light on the details here. I do agree that strong typing systems, safety checks are preferably on backend systems-grade code, at least, but I don't think C#'s types are strong enough, for that prefer something like a Haskell-ish language, Cayenne e.g., Ada, and with strong code-re-usability. I decline to champion a particular language, I only know C# has a lot of baggage from Java/Typescript/Javascript, which it would be better without (C# is also starting to suffer from a C++-ish problem, where there are so many new and different ways to do the same thing that interoperability and "good" standards are swiftly becoming a problem).