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?
Oh speaking of dependencies changes, you know one of the contributions to that team for me was to fight against them depending directly on third party libraries? I have to spend a lot of energy making people go through the pain of creating a middle layer between our code and frameworks code, because it’s not needed, because its repetition, because etc. until the dependencies change and everyone has to sweat blood, I don’t think that’s a good argument for languages allowing hacky code, I think it’s an argument to improve developers awareness, and a team culture that doesn’t foster hacks over bad design decisions