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Is TypeScript the only language your company needs?

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JavaScript (and TypeScript by extension) is making incredible inroads these days - no doubt about that. Imagine if Perl had been used in early browsers instead of JavaScript -- it would have become ubiquitous in the early 2000s. But I predict the pendulum will begin swinging the other way as new toolchains around WebAssembly appear and grow in popularity. We'll see a resurgence of interest in novel/niche languages, and eventually another language (with a WebAssembly target and a small JavaScript runtime for the web) may come out on top.

Short answer: no.

Long answer: The title ist ridiculous, I refuse to even open the link. Yes, I know this community favors more substantial comments, but this one made me angry.

Thanks, exactly my thoughts.

At my work we wouldn't be able to serve our legacy and non-legacy codebases if we could only use typescript.

Yeah, you can only use it if you start new. But if company exists some time longer you can't only rely on TS

Thank you for vocalizing my thoughts.

Fits perfectly with Betteridge's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

tl;dr: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

I work with a company that uses TS for their Node back-end and also their React front-end. It works great. They absolutely love it, and new people don't really need any training.

That said, security is a constant pain due to the npm ecosystem.

Thanks! Interesting to hear about the experience.

Depends. Is 100% of your company's business doing contract development writing CRUD apps in Angular?

If so, then sure. Otherwise, YMMV.