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Thanks the Babel thing was incorrect, Typescript is separate. To clarify, I'm certainly not implying this person is an idiot. I'm saying, they lean toward thin

Thanks the Babel thing was incorrect, Typescript is separate. To clarify, I'm certainly not implying this person is an idiot. I'm saying, they lean toward thinking that the typing system is more of a bad idea (idiocy) than a valid tradeoff.

crdoconnor 10y ago
Yes, that's accurate. I don't think typescript is necessarily the answer though. You don't fix the problems caused by weak implicit type casts with static typing, you do it by turning off weak implicit type casting and raising a lot more type errors.