It’s rarely a case of winner takes all, and in this specific scenario both companies have grown into billion dollar valuations. Seems like it’s working for them, ignoring all the lawsuits

@dang is this story getting flagged? It's appeared under various links in the last 24hrs and does not appear to have ever hit the front page despite a bunch of upvotes. This story seems relevant to HN, and given the policy of careful moderation of stories related to YC-companies perhaps it deserves a spot in the another-chance queue?

This is very exciting! I'm curious if this move eventually unlocks features that have been deemed too expensive/slow so far, e.g. typing `ReactElement` more accurately, typing `TemplateStringsArray` etc

You're in luck! https://github.com/ronami/HypeScript

For me the biggest downside is that they reliably attract vermin. I tried a bunch of things to deter rats but they were ever present when we had hens

You want a rooster, too. A rooster will also keep predators away.

No chance, relatively few software companies ever adopted Rails but a huge number went from Java or .NET -> JS/TS. The draw of cross project code reuse and having teams only needing to know a single language remains compelling.

Java was largely already being abandoned before NodeJS existed. A huge percentage of the web 2.0 companies were built on Rails. Twitter, Github, Shopify, AirBnB, Groupon, SoundCloud, Instacart were all built on Rails. It maybe flew beneath your radar but it was a phenomenon at the time, way before Node.js even existed.

Those examples aren't representative of the broader industry though. There are far more devs working at former Java and .NET shops that have never written a single line of Ruby and are all in on JS/TS now

What you are saying is hyperbole. They are "All" in JS/TS now? I never said JS wasn't bigger than Rails, but Rails was the first and biggest axe to fall against Java. JS just took the baton from them

I said they've gone "all in", not that they're all using JS/TS now

This is really neat, thanks. Their linked Visual Builder Cookbook (https://vbcookbook.oracle.com) also is a nice way to internally communicate design patterns.

They do have more users than that, but from memory they typically distribute it in some other interesting way - i think there's a CLI that installs and manages it.

it's Oracle's UI library that they encourage their official partners to use. I've had the misfortune of doing some consulting for a company that used it, it's actually very fully featured but the internals are totally insane and very dated.

because current battery technology cannot support it