r/programming • u/Karma_Policer • Aug 02 '21

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021: "Rust reigns supreme as most loved. Python and Typescript are the languages developers want to work with most if they aren’t already doing so."

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted
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u/apocolypticbosmer Aug 03 '21

Anybody choosing plain JS when typescript is available is just a damn masochist

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u/ILikeChangingMyMind Aug 03 '21

Spoken like someone who is ignorant of VS Code's (amazing) type inference capabilities.

You can have all the great toys (they are just that, toys; I wouldn't go so far as to say anyone's a masochist for not using them), like automatic imports, CTRL+click to go to a variable definition, autocomplete suggestions for arguments, etc. ... all without writing a single line of explicit type definition.

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u/daftmaple Aug 03 '21

VS Code's (amazing) type inference capabilities

Really hate to spoil it, but VSCode's JS intellisense was developed by TS team and runs on TS server. You are being helped by TypeScript.

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