From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:50:21 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > Small code bases, frequent releases and high user tolerance for small   
   > ooopses favor a language like JavaScript. Ada would not work well in   
   > this context from a business perspective.   
      
   JavaScript is also a dynamic language, unlike Ada. Maybe not as dynamic as   
   Python, but still lets you do a lot in quite compact code.   
      
   I’m not sure I agree with the “tolerance for small ooopses”. There is a   
   thing called “use strict”, which helps catch common JavaScript errors. It   
   is even enforced in new-style modules.   
      
   > Code bases are not small anymore though. And TypeScript has taken huge   
   > chunks of market share from JavaScript in recent years.   
      
   TypeScript is just an attempt to add static typing to JavaScript. Maybe it   
   works for native-side code bases (i.e. not in a browser sandbox). But then   
   you pair it with Electron as your “GUI toolkit”, and you wonder why   
   Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is such a huge download for such little   
   functionality ...   
      
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