Hi! I’ve created this page to showcase the features of Mint (since there are so many) and their corresponding versions in other similar languages.
TS as a statically typed language is not what I would call it. It’s a language with enforced type annotations but can be circumvented pretty easily. For example when receiving a JSON from an http request a string field can be just whatever.
That’s nitpicking. It is statically typed. Is Dart not statically typed because it has
dynamic.You could call it “gradually typed” if you want to be pedantic.
can be circumvented pretty easily
That means it isn’t sound.
Gradually typed is a great description because it’s neither fully static or dynamic. TS does allow you to circumvent the types too easily to be called statically typed.
const strings: string[] = ([1] as any[])Is ok in TS land so the type of
stringsis not really static so to speak because you can assign whatever to it. Writing this in Dart would giveerror - The argument type 'List<dynamic>' can't be assigned to the parameter type 'List<string>'. - argument_type_not_assignableif I’m not mistaken.
I get your point, but that’s not a great example. Kotlin is a statically typed language, and this compiles (and runs!) just fine:
val test: List<String> = listOf(1) as List<String> println(test) // prints "[1]"Even
val test: String = 1 as Stringwill compile, but at least gives you an exception at runtime, which the equivalent typescript wouldn’t.That’s crazy, I thought that would be an invalid cast or something.
Unfortunately not. You do get a warning that it’s an unchecked cast at least.
Granted, the issue here is generic type erasure, which was a tradeoff that was decided on for backwards compatibility when generics were first introduced to Java, so it’s not like an actually desirable feature of the language. But the point is that this wouldn’t be reason for anyone to not call Java and Kotlin not statically typed, their type system is just a bit weaker than others in certain aspects
Why is single line comments listed when it’s green for all of them? Do they not have multi-line comments?
That’s why I do everything in PowerBI, but my data sources are entirely manually-maintained excel files
This is how I learned about ReScript
I love that little language. I learned ReasonML for fun and built a few toy apps a long time ago, but ReScript has been cool to watch
Interesting, but the colours for exceptions are inverted. One of the features that Elm touts on its front page is that it doesn’t have exceptions.
Structural equality is also debatable.
I would have also chosen green for “no exceptions”. This is the way.
What are "frontend language"s?
Just wondering if this is very incomplete or due to scoping.
Languages well suited for client side web code. Most of these (maybe all?) compile to JavaScript and are designed for the web.
Web is just one kind of frontend though. And there’s more ways to target web with JavaScript interfacing than transpiling to JavaScript.
Sure, but without further context, “frontend” means the web. And “frontend language” means languages that were designed for the frontend. You can write a website fromtend in Python, but you absolutely shouldn’t!
You can use languages like Java and Rust too which are more reasonable options, but they aren’t “frontend languages”.
I do my frontend in Rust thankyouverymuch.
Not seeing any links to a page, what’s up?
I’m pretty sure that Mint is capable of exceptions.
This is very incomplete. Like to see it become more complete.
Clojurescript and purescript are my favourites.
