I asked the same question for Anthropic's version of this. Why is all of this in JS?

parhamn 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

JS is web's (and "hip" developer's) python, and in many ways it is better. Also the tooling is getting a lot better (libraries, typescript, bundling, packaging, performance).

One thing I wonder that could be cool: when Bun has sufficient NodeJS compatibility the should ship bun --compile versions so you dont need node/npm on the system.

Then it's arguably a, "why not JS?"

	▲	throwaway314155 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		> and in many ways it is better Right but is it worth having to write JS? /s (kinda)

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photonthug 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tree-sitter related bits probably

	▲	emporas 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		tree-sitter is a C library though. Only grammars for each particular lang are defined in javascript.

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AstroBen 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

typescript is a pretty nice language to work with. why not?

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