My Friend Told Me She Loves TypeScript

The forbidden love story between a programmer and their trusty variable declaration. That tiny little "var" holds the weight of our entire codebase, and we treat it like a precious pet that somehow magically knows what type it should be. "Oh look at my adorable little var! It started as a string, became a number, and now it's an undefined object causing production to crash! Isn't it cute how it grows up so fast?" JavaScript developers nodding nervously while TypeScript devs watch in horror from a safe distance.

Remember when your code buddy was just a rubber duck? Now we've got AI assistants responding to our desperate 3AM comments with heartfelt "Love you bro" messages. Nothing says modern programming quite like having an emotional exchange with a TypeScript file at monster-manager.ts while your real friends are asleep. The three-second "thinking" pause before the response is just *chef's kiss* - just enough time to make you forget you're talking to a machine that would absolutely ghost you if its server went down.

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JavaScript and Java are having a nice, civilized conversation while Microsoft casually ignores them to flirt with TypeScript and C#. The absolute AUDACITY! Like watching your friend ditch you mid-sentence to talk to their new besties. Microsoft really said "sorry kids, I've moved on to greener pastures" and left the OG languages on read. The irony? Microsoft literally OWNS TypeScript (they created it) and has been pushing C# for decades. They're not even trying to hide their favoritism anymore. It's giving "sorry I can't hear you over the sound of my superior type systems" energy.

The JavaScript purists have found their champion. Someone finally brave enough to sign an executive order against TypeScript, the language that dares to add types to JavaScript's beautiful chaos. Next thing you know, they'll be requiring documentation and consistent naming conventions. Pure madness. The compiler fanatics will be celebrating tonight with their manually allocated memory and segmentation faults while the rest of us just want to run npm install 47 times until something works.

Content 3rd - Follow Software Engineer 3d 4 In 2021 a research paper was published showing most efficient programming languages. Paper is here, but sadly behind the paywall. Gotta love "free academic pursuit" where they take in public money and then hide the results. https:Inkd.ingFTCtMzU Anyway: It shows that if people care about energy footprint of their systems, they need to ditch things like ruby, python and perl. Typescript also is super inefficient too. (e) C (e) Rust (e) C (e) Ada (v) Java (e) Pascal (c) Chapel (v) Lisp (c) Ocaml (c) Fortran (e) Swift (c) Haskell (v) C (e) Go (i) Dart (v) F 6) JavaScript (v) Racket (i) TypeScript (i) Hack 6) PHP (v) Erlang G) Lua (i) Jruby G) Ruby G) Python G) Perl Energy 1.00 1.03 1.34 1.70 1.98 2.14 2.18 2.27 2.40 2.52 2.79 3.10 3.14 3.23 3.83 4.13 4.45 7.91 21.50 24.02 29.30 42.23 45.98 46.54 69.91 75.88 79.58 (c) C (c) Rust (e) C (e) Ada (v) Java (c) Chapel (c) Go (c) Pascal (c) Ocaml (v) C (v) Lisp (c) Haskell (c) Swift (c) Fortran (v) F (i) JavaScript () Dart (v) Racket (i) Hack G) PHP (v) Erlang (i) Jruby () TypeScript (i) Ruby G) Perl (i) Python (i) Lua Time 1.00 1.04 1.56 1.85 1.89 2.14 2.83 3.02 3.09 3.14 3.40 3.55 4.20 4.20 6.30 6.52 6.67 11.27 26.99 27.64 36.71 43.44 46.20 59.34 65.79 71.90 82.91 (c) Pascal (e) Go (e) C (c) Fortran (c) C (c) Ada (c) Rust (v) Lisp (c) Haskell G PHP (c) Swift (i) Python (c) Ocaml (v) C (i) Hack (v) Racket (i) Ruby (c) Chapel (v) F (i) JavaScript (i) 'TypeScript (v) Java G Perl (i) Lua (v) Erlang (i) Dart (i) Jruby Mb 1.00 1.05 1.17 1.24 1.34 1.47 1.54 1.92 2.45 2.57 2.71, 2.803 2.82 2.85 3.34 3.52 3.97 4.00 4.25 4.59 4.69 6.01 6.62 6.72 7.20 8.64 19.84 gO 56 23 comments 6 reposts