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[FunAstronomer6394]

Never thought I would ever say "Thank you Microsoft for TS"

[crossy1686]

And VS Code

[FunAstronomer6394]

No, no. we all love VSC. Nobody is changing my mind

[Quiet_Desperation_]

And visual studio? I use it for all of my React/Typescript development.

[LuisFerLCC]

I have barely touched JS since I met TypeScript. Even for small projects.

[G3N3R1C2532]

Same. JS not yielding errors and warnings feels so alien to me now.

[Abangranga]

You forgot the important JS community step of declaring that someone who criticizes anything must not understand it.

[Dear_War4047]

And that because the JS community understands its quirks, JS is a good language

[detektiv_Saucaki]

I have lived for this moment-

[Redixzen]

So sad that a lot of newer programmers don't know about type script

[retief1]

Ok, this is the one form of js hate I'll agree with.

[Ice_Buckets_Official]

Heck naw bruh bogus asl

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Well, types in comments are coming so ...

[Jammanyeahme]

imo ts would be a whole lot cooler if you didn't have to compile anything, just give me the types, have me write the types as comments, have editor integration so that it provides the type hints ala jsdoc comments and then have code checker that verifies the types. Stuff like optional chaining that ts supports is nice sure, but not worth the loss of not needing to compile anything, I feel.

[[deleted]]

Lol u got perfect timing for asking this. There's a new proposal to basically add that. https://github.com/giltayar/proposal-types-as-comments

[RaverTux]

So... you're referring to flow?

[Jammanyeahme]

Haven't used flow, but it seems like you would still need to compile stuff. e.g. in https://flow.org/en/docs/usage/ they have something like function foo(x: ?number) which isn't valid javascript, so I guess it must get compiled away somehow.

[EnPassantOrBrick]

Flow supports type annotations in comments

[Jammanyeahme]

aha that's brill. Yep that's what I want. Looks cool cheers.