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		jameshart 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript'... JS has caught up - it has a sophisticated compilation and linting ecosystem called ‘TypeScript’. Which at least will tell you you’re using a deprecated API, but won’t overcome the dumb API naming choices JavaScript blindly imported from Java

const_cast 7 months ago [–]

We've come full circle. The build systems for JS, a scripting language, make C++ compilation look trivial. And, unfortunately, that's reflected in the compile times.

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