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Discussion on: Twenty years of web development, a change is coming!

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David Dal Busco • Edited

If you extend Javascript with Typescript as many compilers or frameworks do, it does not almost feels barbaric I think, it can even looks like writing Java but less verbosely.

That being said, Rust looks cool!

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Michael Fasani

I'm also playing with TypeScript at the moment, I enjoy both, but Rust just feels very cool imo. Looking forward to making and sharing something soon.

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David Dal Busco

I almost only use Javascript when I debug or write Gatsby websites, otherwise, always Typescript.

You earned a new follower, looking forward to some intro to Rust blog posts, it is definitely on my "I should give it a try" TODO list 😉.

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Michael Fasani

Thank you! I definitely plan to do some JS to Rust style posts. This was a very cool intro to Rust (github.com/rust-lang/rustlings).

Just check out that repo and you will be learning Rust immediately in the CLI, very nice intro experience to a new language.

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David Dal Busco

Awesome!!! Thank you Michael, I'll check it out 🙏.

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Michael Fasani • Edited

@daviddalbusco your contribution count on GitHub is looking solid!

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David Dal Busco • Edited

Yours also michael @fasani and you are doing a solid year too!

I am a big fan of open source and our editor for slides, DeckDeckGo, is of course such piece of software too. As it became quite a mono repo, my contributions count grown too 😁.

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Sattwik Sahu

Yeah people from a Java C++ background might feel comfy with TS instead of JS

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David Dal Busco

I have a prior long java experience, can't deny it 😉

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Andrew Baisden

Typescript is on my list to "re-learn" after I learned it but then did not use it because the job I was in at the time did not require it 😅 How many companies these days are looking for developers that use Typescript? I still keep finding jobs that just ask for Javascript.

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Michael Fasani

I recently changed job position and at least here in Switzerland/Zurich I was surprised at how many companies are now asking for it (we also have a lot of Angular jobs here). There are many banking/financial/pharma/insurance companies, and TypeScript seems really popular now, more so than three years ago when I was last looking, especially in the higher-paying positions.

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David Dal Busco • Edited

Angular and Stencil are both using per default Typescript. Companies using these are de facto using it.

React, Vue, Svelte (probably), Gatsby etc. can be used with Typescript. Therefore I would say that at least some companies are using it 😉.

P.S.: isn't Vue 3 event written with Typescript too?

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Andrew Baisden

Valid points looks like I should join the party 😁

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David Dal Busco

To infinity and beyond 🚀