PHP has a much more competent type system than JS and is overall more ergonomic IMO.

Typescript exists, but if I'm compiling something I'm using a real language or framework like dotnet. There's no reason for me to use typescript and node and install 100 packages when I can just install dotnet.

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reactordev a day ago | parent [-]

install dotnet, and install 100 packages for .net core, asp.net, identity, ef, etc. Don’t kid yourself.

While strongly typed languages are great. I like to be able to get things done. This is why I don’t C++ anymore. This is also why I don’t dotnet anymore. Too much BS with the type system and correctness and the Microsoft way or lack of support or rug pull. They lost me when they killed XNA.

Typescript is actually good, except for the fact that it’s a transpiler to JavaScript. That part sucks.

I want a C++, with Types, with memory safety, with garbage collection, with pointers, with a dev experience like dotnet, but we don’t have those things.

	▲	const_cast 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		dotnet is a batteries included framework... It has way more included than any other language, including JS and PHP. > I want a C++, with Types, with memory safety, with garbage collection, with pointers, with a dev experience like dotnet, but we don’t have those things. Dotnet, you want dotnet. Dotnet has all of those. Yes it has pointers.