Comment by IshKebab
2 months ago
Typescript is a lot nicer than Python in many ways. Especially via Deno, and especially for scripting (imports work like people want!).
There are some things that aren't as good, e.g. Python's arbitrary precision integers are definitely nicer for scripting. And I'd say Python's list comprehension syntax is often quite nice even if it is weirdly irregular.
But overall Deno is a much better choice for ad-hoc scripting than Python.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I am aware, but Python has that by default. In Javascript it's opt-in and less ergonomic. E.g. try loading a 64-bit integer from JSON.
I agree, but bigints are missing from json because the json spec defines all numbers as 64 bit floats. Any other kind of number in JSON is nonstandard.
JavaScript itself supports bigint literals just fine. Just put an ‘n’ after your number literal. Eg 0xffffffffffffffn.
There’s a whole bunch of features I wish we could go in and add to json. Like comments, binary blobs, dates and integers / bigints. It would be so much nicer to work with if it has that stuff.
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