I'd say Typescript/JavaScript on the backend are a bad idea across the board. That's not really because of this conversation, just in general.
The comment about Typescript was really about JavaScript. It's a patch on top of JavaScript, which is a shit show and should have been replaced before it ended up forming the backbone of the internet.
Python, typed or otherwise, isn't good for anything past prototyping, piping a bunch of machine learning libraries together, or maybe a small project. The minute the project gets large or starts to move towards actual production software Python should be dropped.
I don't think writing your frontend in Rust instead of TypeScript or your computer vision pipeline in Java would be better at all. We rewrote our frontend in GHCJS (Haskell) at one point and it was a colossal waste of time.
I'd say Typescript/JavaScript on the backend are a bad idea across the board. That's not really because of this conversation, just in general.
The comment about Typescript was really about JavaScript. It's a patch on top of JavaScript, which is a shit show and should have been replaced before it ended up forming the backbone of the internet.
Python, typed or otherwise, isn't good for anything past prototyping, piping a bunch of machine learning libraries together, or maybe a small project. The minute the project gets large or starts to move towards actual production software Python should be dropped.
Happily using both in production here, guess I'm just hallucinating.
I'm not saying you _can't_ do it. You could write production software in Bash if you really wanted to. I'm saying there are much better options.
I don't think writing your frontend in Rust instead of TypeScript or your computer vision pipeline in Java would be better at all. We rewrote our frontend in GHCJS (Haskell) at one point and it was a colossal waste of time.