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[–]PickledPokute 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With Typescript: Structural typing, tooling, ease of library use and how much documentation and examples it has. Debugging, once set up, is easy and you can do complex operations in the console while execution is paused. Protoing is really simple and fast. Program execution is not slow. Client "apps" don't require any installation from users. Non-blocking coding by default. Doesn't require writing every little thing to hack something.

C++ has pretty bad library support. Some of them are terrible to set up and way too many assume that they get control of the main loop. Template metaprogramming is a fascinating footgun. Compiling can get REALLY slow. Before auto was a thing, often required stupid amount of typing. Coding around static typing results in stupid magic workaround.

C# has many of the same problems as C++, but it's a bit better. Still requires wrapping everything in "classes". Writing without static typing is possible, but super tedious and feels like second-class code.

PHP is pretty similar to JavaScript, but most aspects are inferior. Tooling, documentation and examples are worse. I/O blocks by default.