JS is the best tradeoff between succinct and easy to understand. Python is next but has some rough edges that they avoided in JS.

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3eb7988a1663 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You are going to have to give more support for those assertions. I write Python every day, and never would I call it a good candidate for the clankers. Pretty much any dynamic language would be ruled out, as there is too much implicit logic which makes it harder to understand what is happening.

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maleldil an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Python with a strict linter and type checker (eg ruff with the right lints on and ty with its stricter settings, or strict pyright if performance isn't too bad) works very well. Most of Python strengths (concise, large ecosystem, well represented in the LLM training data) while having good static analysis.

	▲	frollogaston an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You don't need that, gets in the way more than it helps. Even Typescript isn't really needed, but at least it's decent devex unlike the Python typing stuff. What really helps is testing.

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frollogaston an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What's better for this, Go? That's the least verbose static one, and it's still a lot more verbose without helping you understand any better what it's doing. It's just faster. That's the real benefit of static types.