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Discussion on: To Typescript Or Not To?

 
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John Peters • Edited

I never called you a TypeScript hater, but they lurk in every place I've worked.

It took Javascript around 5 years after TypeScript was introduced to catch up.

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JoelBonetR 🥇 • Edited

hahaha I need to clarify just in case. John, you have more experience than me, the only thing that I can think of TS can bring is compile checks, (which is irrelevant on a non-compiled language btw) and the things it implies such putting the intellisense on steroids and things related to domain modeling and domain-driven design which can benefit of this strong typing -which you can get from any vanilla JS babel plugin obviously-

there's even runtime type checkers if you search on google

do you mind any thing that makes me thing that TS is a superset instead a subset? :DDDDD

and yes it took near 5 years after TS release date but we are now in 2021 not in 2012 nor in 2016, so we're discussing the current state