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Same. You can use Maybes and Eithers today with a package import. The barrier is getting people familiar with them. Right now there's a lot of push back against them just because of familiarity bias.
If the language adopted them as native though, people would jump on board.
If the language adopted them as native though, people would jump on board.
I think so too. Rust has them, they are called Option and Result. I secretly want Rust to become more popular so people can learn about them and how useful they are, and also start using them in other languages (and by other i mean javascript)
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Interestingly, Rust has started to become more popular in Web Land as a language for writing WASM modules, in part because of the strong support from the Rust team themselves. See developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
I like this one dev.to/_gdelgado/type-safe-error-h...
Currently im working on trying to reduce all the friction that happens when a language doesn’t support it more natively, hopefully have a post up with samples in the next month or so :)
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I, too, want pattern matching in javascript and i also want Maybes and Eithers.
You could try Z.
dev.to/kayis/pattern-match-your-ja...
Z looks interesting for sure. It's a little limited though. But it would work fine for this use case.
Same. You can use Maybes and Eithers today with a package import. The barrier is getting people familiar with them. Right now there's a lot of push back against them just because of familiarity bias.
If the language adopted them as native though, people would jump on board.
People are silly like that.
I think so too. Rust has them, they are called Option and Result. I secretly want Rust to become more popular so people can learn about them and how useful they are, and also start using them in other languages (and by other i mean javascript)
Interestingly, Rust has started to become more popular in Web Land as a language for writing WASM modules, in part because of the strong support from the Rust team themselves. See developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
I like this one dev.to/_gdelgado/type-safe-error-h...
Currently im working on trying to reduce all the friction that happens when a language doesn’t support it more natively, hopefully have a post up with samples in the next month or so :)