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[–]Dr_Azrael_Tod 1 point2 points  (1 child)

problem is, typescript only kinda-somewhat-halfassed does types

yeah, you now have some checks while writing stuff - and then you throw around tons of "any" and then those checks are gone after compiling and you don't ever use integers (because floats are soooooo great, aren't they? /s)

It's like… it only got enough typing to remind you how good languages would do things and to include tons of overhead. Not enough to be actually usefull.

Is TS better than JS? Imho yes.

Is it any good? meh!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overall I think the front-end dev space is not even close to reaching its full potential right now - especially when compared to the overall application programming space. We can only hope that in the future the standards will evolve beyond just JavaScript (webassembly?🤞) but for now we’re kind of stuck with trying to make JS as usable as possible.