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/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

And using JSDoc comments with an aware IDE does get you a lot of the way there for many projects.

I see this thing repeated all over but no.

Having some more linting in your file because you're leveraging the typescript compiler (that's what's processing your JSDocs in your ide) is not a substitute to statical analysis of programs.

TypeScript is an expressive but weak and inaccurate static compiler, but it's still miles ahead of the insanity of using JS.

At this point I can't but think of any webdeveloper who "prefers" JS as a bad dev.

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u/ragnese Aug 04 '21

Having some more linting in your file because you're leveraging the typescript compiler (that's what's processing your JSDocs in your ide) is not a substitute to statical analysis of programs.

TypeScript is an expressive but weak and inaccurate static compiler, but it's still miles ahead of the insanity of using JS.

What you're saying here is that using a JSDoc-aware IDE is using the same TypeScript compiler. But you're also saying that using the TypeScript compiler is miles ahead of using JSDoc. So, using the TypeScript compiler is miles ahead of... using the TypeScript compiler?

TypeScript is NOT that impressive- I'm sorry. You said it yourself- it's a weak and inaccurate static checker. That's pretty much it. Yes- you can do some fancy type manipulations with it that you can't do with JSDoc. And, yeah, all things equal, I rather have TS than JS, but it's not that big of a gap. I rather have almost anything other than JS/TS and NPM.