Re: Upcoming software switch for solidcommunity.net

pá 17. 1. 2025 v 15:13 odesílatel Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>
napsal:

> Hi all,
>
> I remember in 2019 starting to work for Inrupt and in my first weeks as an
> employee, talking about the switch from JavaScript to TypeScript for our
> main open source Solid server.
>
> Next week, we will finally be switching https://solidcommunity.net over
> to TypeScript.
>
> The technical details of the switch are in the capable hands of our server
> admin team, in particular Alain Bourgeois.
>
> The operational stewardship of https://solidcommunity.net lies with the
> ODI, in particular Jesse Wright.
>
> You can read the details of the migration in
> https://github.com/solid/solidcommunity.net/blob/main/NSS2CSS.md
>
> You can help by testing your account on https://solidcommunity.net:8443
>
> You can join https://matrix.to/#/#solid_solidcommunity.net:gitter.im if
> you are noticing any issues you would like to report.
>
> Forum post:
> https://forum.solidproject.org/t/upcoming-software-switch-for-solidcommunity-net/8608
>

Hi Michiel,

As the founder of the Solid community pod and having run it for a quarter
of a decade alongside the community (including you!) until I became unwell,
I wanted to share some thoughts.

NSS was very much designed with JavaScript at its core, not TypeScript. In
my view, TypeScript is an entirely different language. The reason I have
always favored, and still favor, JavaScript is its web-native nature and
the fact that it doesn't require a transpiler.

I’d love to see a minimalist, blazing-fast JavaScript server that remains
true to its web-native roots—one that avoids the need for a compiler,
scales effectively, and performs exceptionally well.

Best

Melvin


>
>
> Many thanks,
> Michiel de Jong
> Solid CG Co-chair
>