🔗 Choosing Languages

The other day, Microsoft announced that they are re-writing the TypeScript compiler in Go. A lot of people had a lot of feelings about this. I did too, but in a different way than many other people.

The biggest questions people had were “Why not C#?” and “Why not Rust?”. To be clear, I do think that asking why someone chooses a programming language can be valuable; as professionals, we need to make these sorts of decisions on a regular basis, and seeing how others make those decisions can be useful, to get an idea of how other people think about these things.

But it can also… I dunno. Sometimes, I think people have little imagination when it comes to choosing a particular technology stack.

Here’s my opinion on the new typescript compiler: You should write programs in the language you want to.