Though of course, sometimes there are easy options that the UK missed out on because they are inept and apathetic, which would vindicate some of those comparisons to some extent.
Yeah, had to get clued up on this for new house in London. A few points:
1. It is unlikely that hydrogen will be pushed heavily by the UK gov because of the expensive pipe rework. The reason they're pushing hard for heat pumps is because of the Glasgow Climate Pact; they're on the hook to reduce carbon emissions or pay heavy fines. To that extent, subsidising heat pumps becomes financially less unviable for them than doing nothing.
2. Regarding the heat in summer; the houses insulate well but don't do much to prevent heat coming in from the windows during summer. There are some pretty useful half-fixes; mvhrs+insulation, or recessed windows/overhangs/sunshades massively aid this. For those who rent that's not much help though :(
I know why it's fast (it doesn't do anything it doesn't need to), but not exactly sure why it's faster than esbuild-runner; presumably it had a higher latency when tested.
(and downsides not really, beyond it's pretty fresh so bug reports welcome)
For anyone who is still confused - they're still gonna be using TypeScript in that they will have a tsconfig.json, `allowJS: true, checkJS: true` but they are just writing the files in JS with JSDoc type annotations, they'll still have `.d.ts` files to allow TS developers to use it without issues.
Is it contrarian - yes - is it insane - no, not really.
Edit: the motivation seems to be to simplify processes - running TS files can be awkward, and cross importing is awkward. fwiw created my own tool for this ([url-redacted])
Would encourage DuckDuckGo people who are looking for a new option to consider Ecosia - it also uses the Bing API so it has good indexing coverage - but does a much better job of postprocessing the results.