Understanding the Benefits of "Quirky" Web Languages

• TypeScript

  1,307 98,169 9.9 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".

• PHPT

  276 37,353 10.0 C

  The PHP Interpreter

  

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• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• MongoDB

  250 25,487 10.0 C++

  The MongoDB Database

  

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• node

  935 104,159 9.9 JavaScript

  Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

  

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• WHATWG HTML Standard

  137 7,710 9.4 HTML

  HTML Standard

  

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• dom

  30 1,535 6.5 HTML

  DOM Standard

  

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