I was talking to my manager the other day, discussing the languages we are using at $dayjob. He kind of offhandedly said that he thinks TypeScript is a temporary fad and soon everything will go back to using JavaScript. He doesn’t like that it’s made by Microsoft either.

I’m not a frontend developer so I don’t really know, but my general impression is that everything is moving more and more towards TypeScript, not away from it. But maybe I’m wrong?

Does anyone who actually works with TypeScript have any impression about this?

  • shnizmuffinEnglish
    3•8 months ago

    the entire website ui is rendered in a canvas (already starting to happen thanks to some frameworks like flutter)

    That sounds like an accessibility nightmare.

    • @[email protected]
      3•8 months ago

      Have you tried not being disabled?

      Flutter devs actually defended this approach, saying the web in general is moving to this direction. I think they’ve mellowed out somewhat and released html renderer support, though it’s still default to canvas for desktop web browsers.