alt Hacker NewsSeeing these graphs of astounding performance gains with less memory requirements makes one wonder, Why am I using server-side TypeScript and not Go?
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semiquaver • today at 7:35 PM
For one, you’re not using TypeScript server-side. Whatever execution engine you are using is executing transpiled or JavaScript.
And yeah, I don’t know who in their right mind is starting projects in TS/JS/python these days except when they don’t have an option.
throw310822 • today at 8:24 PM
Because you can share types and even modules with your frontend project? Because for applications that aren't CPU-intensive it makes almost no difference? Because you are familiar with it and like it? Because of the humongous amount of libraries?
Scarbutt • today at 7:57 PM
Because it’s easier to work with one main language if you can get away with it.
This is build-time performance, not run-time.