I've never been a fan of fully typed versions of untyped languages, specially of the interpreted variety (as this effectively makes them compiled languages, without really giving them any of the associated performance benefits).
First for Lua, then recently for JavaScript I've also landed on type annotations in comment form that a language server can use to check my code as I am writing it, but that doesn't need any additional build steps.
I've now gotten so used to this way of structuring my code that I am starting to miss it when writing Ruby code, but alas, I haven't yet found a LS that will do this sort of "optional" type checking properly (solargraph tries to but is kind of weird about it).
I understand and support your points. I would like to see more JavaScript tools that can check code for type safety. This could create stronger competition, thereby pushing the development of tools faster. But for now, we have to live with what we have 🥲
I hope that the ES types proposal, if it will be accepted, could enable the creation of more tools that will help with this
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I've never been a fan of fully typed versions of untyped languages, specially of the interpreted variety (as this effectively makes them compiled languages, without really giving them any of the associated performance benefits).
First for Lua, then recently for JavaScript I've also landed on type annotations in comment form that a language server can use to check my code as I am writing it, but that doesn't need any additional build steps.
I've now gotten so used to this way of structuring my code that I am starting to miss it when writing Ruby code, but alas, I haven't yet found a LS that will do this sort of "optional" type checking properly (solargraph tries to but is kind of weird about it).
Hey @darkwiiplayer !
I understand and support your points. I would like to see more JavaScript tools that can check code for type safety. This could create stronger competition, thereby pushing the development of tools faster. But for now, we have to live with what we have 🥲
I hope that the ES types proposal, if it will be accepted, could enable the creation of more tools that will help with this