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I work in an investment bank that builds, operates and sells solar parks, and while the main builk of the work we do in the development department is in the fields of finance and asset management we do sometimes work with the solar inverters and similar. Being a non-tech enterprise means we're a rather small IT department in a large company that doesn't really care about tech beyond it working, as a result we've adopted Typescript as our "main" language. I've still build stuff in C and Rust, and our ML/AI employees do some of the work with Python, but over all we tend to use Typescript when and where we can because it's easier for our developers to switch and support each others if we work in the same language.

If we can use a Typescript subset maintained by Microsoft on the embedded devices at the solar plants, it'll be a absolutely amazing. Regardless of what came before.

Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't mind if something different took over. In many ways it would be much easier for us if we could do everything in Rust, but I don't think anyone in our team believe we'll see a realistic alternative to JavaScript on the frontend in our careers, so well...



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