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Why waste your time with half-baked type systems that try to achieve some compromise over JS idiosyncrasies. Go all in with purescript[0] :D Simple, elegant,

Why waste your time with half-baked type systems that try to achieve some compromise over JS idiosyncrasies. Go all in with purescript[0] :D Simple, elegant, strong typed and compiles to JS. [0]: http://www.purescript.org/ http://www.purescript.org/

jawarner 10y ago
Yeah, why waste your time learning a little bit of new syntax when you can learn a whole lot of new syntax /s
- HugoDaniel 10y ago
  And not just any syntax. Jump on the bandwagon and learn the gods[0] syntax. :D [0] https://github.com/purescript/purescript/wiki/Differences-from-Haskell https://github.com/purescript/purescript/wiki/Differences-fr...
computerex 10y ago
Because freedom? Typescript is a superset of JavaScript, which means all JavaScript is valid typescript. So you're never faced with the difficult choice of locking yourself to one language/platform. JavaScript is awesome, it just doesn't scale to large projects because you cannot efficiently refactor it. Typescript solves this problem beautifully. You can easily add whatever type information you need to effectively work with the codebase, whilst being compatible with all JavaScript libraries and the ecosystem.
- HugoDaniel 10y ago
  Does that include ES6 ? What parts of JS do they consider a subset of typescript ? Can i keep my type declarations in a different file than my .js code like flow does ? (thus ensuring compatibility while keeping the functionality of typescript) How far can i go with typescript until i need to use babel ?
  - pitaj 10y ago
    > Does that include ES6 ? Yes. > What parts of JS do they consider a subset of typescript ? Everything that's standardized. > Can i keep my type declarations in a different file than my .js code like flow does ? Yes. > How far can i go with typescript until i need to use babel ? Pretty much as far as you want, although you may have to wait a little bit longer. BTW, stop inserting spaces before your punctuation. It's super aggravating.
emodendroket 10y ago
A better debugging experience, for one.

jawarner 10y ago

Yeah, why waste your time learning a little bit of new syntax when you can learn a whole lot of new syntax /s

HugoDaniel 10y ago
And not just any syntax. Jump on the bandwagon and learn the gods[0] syntax. :D [0] https://github.com/purescript/purescript/wiki/Differences-from-Haskell https://github.com/purescript/purescript/wiki/Differences-fr...

computerex 10y ago

Because freedom? Typescript is a superset of JavaScript, which means all JavaScript is valid typescript. So you're never faced with the difficult choice of locking yourself to one language/platform. JavaScript is awesome, it just doesn't scale to large projects because you cannot efficiently refactor it. Typescript solves this problem beautifully. You can easily add whatever type information you need to effectively work with the codebase, whilst being compatible with all JavaScript libraries and the ecosystem.

HugoDaniel 10y ago
Does that include ES6 ? What parts of JS do they consider a subset of typescript ? Can i keep my type declarations in a different file than my .js code like flow does ? (thus ensuring compatibility while keeping the functionality of typescript) How far can i go with typescript until i need to use babel ?
- pitaj 10y ago
  > Does that include ES6 ? Yes. > What parts of JS do they consider a subset of typescript ? Everything that's standardized. > Can i keep my type declarations in a different file than my .js code like flow does ? Yes. > How far can i go with typescript until i need to use babel ? Pretty much as far as you want, although you may have to wait a little bit longer. BTW, stop inserting spaces before your punctuation. It's super aggravating.

emodendroket 10y ago

A better debugging experience, for one.