Comments by "Charles M." (@charlesm.2604) on "JavaScript for the Haters" video.

@salvationindustries C# supports different execution profiles (Just-In-Time compilation for debugging and Ahead-Of-Time compilation for production). The engine is also open source and can be embedded or used in Terminal with real-time interpretation for scripting purposes.
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@madhououinkyoma With the dotnet boilerplates included in your IDE ? You can get it done within a few hours give or take. That's one the main pros of batteries-included frameworks (ASP, Rails, Laravel, Django, Spring, etc...). As opposed to NodeJS in which you will need to tie a bunch of independant libraries together (Express for routing, TypeORM for object relational mapping, NodeMailer for emails, encryption libraries for security, etc...) as well as writing your own framework implementation for each singular projects (controller classes ? dependency injection ? event subscription ? etc...) and deal with the tooling hell of the ecosystem on top (linters, bundlers, etc...). You can't argue for JavaScript when it comes to developer experience. That's literally it's biggest con, that's what every JavaScript dev is yelling against. JavaScript is such a popular language because it's cheaper to have the same people working on all back-end, front-end and business internal products, not because they have an easier time.
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@madhououinkyoma I understood that they talked about interpreted languages vs. compiled languages. Which I replied, C# can be interpreted as well. Worst part is that nobody uses JavaScript, we use TypeScript, so there's a transpilation step which needs to run before execution anyway.
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@madhououinkyoma Well yeah I get their point after you clarified it but I still disagree with them, JavaScript doesn't help anyone write code faster.
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@asagiai4965 it does lol
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@madhououinkyoma Sorry if it came out aggressively by the way reading back it sounds a bit harsh on my end ! 👍
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@MaryamMaqdisi I really don't understand what makes a dynamic typed language faster to write than a statically typed language. You legit write the same code, the only difference is that your IDE will tell you if you introduce bugs. For example in TypeScript: var num = 1; num = 2; num = "this shouldn't be here"; You get an error. Same example with C#: var num = 1; num = 2; num = "this shouldn't be here"; You get an error. You don't need to specify num as a number (TS) or as an int (C#) when you declare it. This is called type inference. What make dynamic type languages faster to write with exactly ?
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