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5 YEARS AND $5M LATER: INVENTING A NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT WAS A MISTAKE

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

The co-founder of Wasp reflects on the decision to build a custom programming language for web development, concluding that it was a mistake due to huge friction with developer adoption and the high cost of maintaining custom IDE tooling. As a result, the framework is transitioning to a TypeScript-based SDK to provide a more familiar interface.