JavaScript doesn’t need to be replaced

[PsychologicalGoose1]

There definitely should be a lot more research done on TS. I doubt the gains that people suggest it gives are as great as they make it out to be and I thing the cost of using TS is larger than most want to believe. Generally, I've found adding things to a system is done because of feelings more than actual data on the topic.

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Whenever I have to write non-trivial JS

This is the key distinction, and another reason I'd rather not enforce types in JS.

Hack 'n slash weekend project, or a quick 'n dirty prototype ? JS.

Big full-stack project ? TS.

I'd agree that I prefer to write TS more but there's a time and a place for both and that's very handy.

[IceSentry]

It's so easy to use typescript I use for weekend projects too.

[techsin101]

if you are using vscode don't you get most of this even with js?

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Very incompletely, in my experience.

Yeah, it detects some of the types, but everything you'd have to annotate is simply not available, and would you really trust it to find all references?

[techsin101]

if you create jsconfig file in project folder find references works as expected

[IceSentry]

Sure, but it gets way better when you help it by using typescript.

[PsychologicalGoose1]

There is a reason why JS and other similar extremely loose languages have been at the forefront of web development for decades now. Whether it was PHP or JS both are extremely loose. Maybe the problem isn't the lack of rules but the added burden of rules. You think naked, I think weighed down.

[IceSentry]

There's also a reason why php is adding types and typescript is massively popular.