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Discussion on: The Trouble with TypeScript

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Ronald Bravo

Interesting read. I read this article along with Eric Elliot's article, You May Not Need Typescript. I think you might find a few articles as a follow up to this one interesting:

medium.com/javascript-scene/you-mi...
medium.com/javascript-scene/the-sh...
labs.ig.com/static-typing-promise

I agree with the sentiments of this article and often feel like Typescript is an attempt to make JS more like C#. I also got this impression after having read an article on Blazor and it's promises to appeal more to the C# developers who are not fond of the frontend. It seems to me the biggest appeal to Typescript has been the auto completion from the ecosytem inside IDE's like VS Code. However, I wonder how much of the same effect can be achieved by JsDoc or perhaps something similar in the future. I once saw a presentation emphasizing to never bet against Javascript, only time will tell if this is true or not. Just my personal opinions.