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Discussion on: IDE’s are stuck in the past

 
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András Tóth

Server costs are cheaper than DEV time cost most of the time. Also efficiency comes late in the game, when you have a huge established clientele. And then you can also choose to rewrite only the ones that would really-really benefit from those languages.

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Elias Groll

At first, we build dedicated tools for TypeScript, JavaScript and NodeJs.

We chose it, not because it is our favorite language, but because it is highly adopted while the tooling is (because it is so new) a pain in the ass.

We are investigating support for other languages like Java, PHP, Deno, and Go which may come in the summer.

Personally, I see languages really as tools and I don't understand all the religion around some of them.

Use the right tool for the job, and if the job is being highly productive in a browser + microservice environment, TypeScript feels very reasonable (e.g. same language in frontend and backend, OOP, async...).

PS: We will be cheaper than your avg. cloud provider as well.