Understanding the Benefits of "Quirky" Web Languages

1. TypeScript

   1 1,411 102,821 9.8 TypeScript

   TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

   

   As we can see, there are different types of non-strict behavior. I am not advocating for weak or untyped variables, although that's another aspect of web technology in its original form and the reason for TypeScript and PHP Standards Recommendations. Fault tolerance might invite people to overoptimize, making code harder to understand and introduce new potential sources of error. That can be fixed by advocating strict and orderly source code, which might or might not be transpiled to a more compact output. Actually this is the main point of robustness: "be conservative [or strict] in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others".

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3. PHPT

   2 304 38,751 10.0 C

   The PHP Interpreter

   

   The product logos in this article's cover image include different languages and technologies some of which are still relevant for web development today: HTML, CSS, JavaScript / ES / TypeScript (and the DOM), SVG, PDF, PHP, SQL (mySQL, MariaDB), mongoDB, Node.js (the most successful server-side implementation of JavaScript so far).

4. MongoDB

   3 297 26,897 10.0 C++

   The MongoDB Database

   

   The product logos in this article's cover image include different languages and technologies some of which are still relevant for web development today: HTML, CSS, JavaScript / ES / TypeScript (and the DOM), SVG, PDF, PHP, SQL (mySQL, MariaDB), mongoDB, Node.js (the most successful server-side implementation of JavaScript so far).

5. node

   4 1,174 110,127 10.0 JavaScript

   Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

   

   The product logos in this article's cover image include different languages and technologies some of which are still relevant for web development today: HTML, CSS, JavaScript / ES / TypeScript (and the DOM), SVG, PDF, PHP, SQL (mySQL, MariaDB), mongoDB, Node.js (the most successful server-side implementation of JavaScript so far).

6. WHATWG HTML Standard

   5 160 8,420 9.4 HTML

   HTML Standard

   

   The product logos in this article's cover image include different languages and technologies some of which are still relevant for web development today: HTML, CSS, JavaScript / ES / TypeScript (and the DOM), SVG, PDF, PHP, SQL (mySQL, MariaDB), mongoDB, Node.js (the most successful server-side implementation of JavaScript so far).

7. dom

   6 32 1,633 7.2 HTML

   DOM Standard

   

   The product logos in this article's cover image include different languages and technologies some of which are still relevant for web development today: HTML, CSS, JavaScript / ES / TypeScript (and the DOM), SVG, PDF, PHP, SQL (mySQL, MariaDB), mongoDB, Node.js (the most successful server-side implementation of JavaScript so far).

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