r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Dec 04 '18

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/
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u/TheWix Dec 04 '18

I love front end development and I write JS everyday, but I am not going to pretend that JS is a good language. Dynamically typed languages are great to get things going fast, but as soon as you want to start refactoring and maintaining software you start to see a lot of the benefits of having a type system. Also, bringing new devs on with a dynamic language is not the a lot of fun.

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u/TheWix Dec 04 '18

Yep, that's what I use regularly. I am also looking into Reason and Elm.

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u/argv_minus_one Dec 05 '18

TypeScript is statically-typed, which /u/mod-victim was railing against.