• Knusper@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Well, usually because you’ve got a team of frontend folks needing to do a backend.

    There’s one other advantage, which is that you can have a compile-time shared model between backend and frontend. You also have that advantage with WASM, but not with a traditional backend/frontend technology split…

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      1 year ago

      Compile time is my biggest issue with TypeScript. I’ve used JavaScript for decades with compile time measured in, what, a millisecond or two. Having to wait for TypeScript drives me nuts.