Of course, it's a preference... but imagine someone migrating from Java or other typed language. It's better to learn typescript than javascript plus jsdocs.
For me, it looses the best of typescript. And also, we have infer typing that should be so complex to recreate using comments.
And also, the jsdocs is much more extensive to code.
Compilers are done to avoid it. Or do you planned to put on production your code with comments? no? then if you have any step between code and production, you have a "compiler"
Of course, it's a preference... but imagine someone migrating from Java or other typed language. It's better to learn typescript than javascript plus jsdocs.
For me, it looses the best of typescript. And also, we have infer typing that should be so complex to recreate using comments.
And also, the jsdocs is much more extensive to code.
Compilers are done to avoid it. Or do you planned to put on production your code with comments? no? then if you have any step between code and production, you have a "compiler"
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