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Discussion on: The Trouble with TypeScript

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Ryan Carniato

Yeah that's what I've been hoping for. I'm expecting the other shoe to drop for months now. And it sort of does. Like I feel fairly competent now with TypeScript. It's just the more I learn the more I'm impressed with how difficult the challenge that exists here. And while it's admirable and the community has been so helpful. There is always just the next thing.

I lived in the CoffeeScript world for a long time with no tooling after coming from C# where everything was autocompleted. It was less of a system shock than I expected. I've lived through both and they have their tradeoffs. The weird part for me is how TS is not C#. That strange ambiguity and incompleteness when approaching certain problems that are possible only because TS is JS.

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Joe Pea

Yeah, it is interesting how TypeScript is releasing some new type features -- that basically don't exist in any other typed language -- due to the efforts in making it possible to express JavaScript paradigms with types.