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Discussion on: TypeScript: JavaScript + Types = Awesome Developer Productivity

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Jesse M. Holmes

I disagree, but I would as a lover of TypeScript. The last language I preferred wasn’t strongly typed, and I find it to be a relief.

The tooling isn’t all that complex—today you can throw Parcel into a project and mostly forget about your TypeScript configuration, and my editor is built in the same language, so the tools work very well together.

I’m not sure what you mean by runtime overhead. It’s JavaScript by then, and Interfaces—the biggest win for the work I’m doing—don’t even compile.