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Pi 1.0

1684 points · 602 comments · sergiotapia

  1. semiquaver · · focus · HN ↗
    I know this is going to get downvoted but what drives people to use javascript of all languages to build these fundamental pieces of tooling? We have so many better options, especially now since humans aren’t writing most of the code. It’s hard to take seriously anyone that wants to make a primarily CLI tool with heavy interactivity and parallelism requirements and decides to use a joke language that happened to luck its way into prominence because of web browsers.
    1. Maxforever · · focus · HN ↗
      I use TypeScript because it compiles to JS that runs on Cloudflare Workers, which makes hosting the service really cheap.
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