I had to deal with large JavaScript codebases targeting IE8 back in the day and probably would’ve slapped anyone back then who suggested using JavaScript for everything. I have to say, though, that faster runtimes like v8 and TypeScript have done wonders, and TypeScript nowadays is actually one of my favorite languages.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How is ts faster?
It's not even part of js

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The JavaScript code is compiled to native and is heavily optimized, as opposed to being interpreted.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Compiled to native what?
Typescript is only used at development time it won't do shit in the browser for you.
Where did u see any performance improvements? TS doesn't do that

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

TS transpiles to JS, and then when that JS is executed in Deno, Node.js, a Blink browser like Chrome, etc., it gets just in time compiled to native machine code instead of getting interpreted. Hope that helps.