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Been a Linux developer for ages C# was never my taste, I'm still a bit Microsoft-hatred as of now(Visual Studio Code is the only item I adopted for JS developme

by ausjke 10y ago

Been a Linux developer for ages C# was never my taste, I'm still a bit Microsoft-hatred as of now(Visual Studio Code is the only item I adopted for JS development, the rest languages I still use vi/Geany). How tightly TS is related to C#? That has been the main reason I had not tried TS seriously so far. Don't want to have anything to do with C#. I know...

ygra 10y ago
They are not related at all, except in who is their original designer. However, if you are really so fundamentally opposed to anything and everything a certain language represents then you've got to hate a lot of languages for a really, really petty reason.
- ausjke 10y ago
  For the record I embrace all new stuff except for two, that is Microsoft at-large and systemd.
  - pitaj 10y ago
    Oracle should probably on that list
    - ausjke 10y ago
      YES!!! However my projects so far have not had anything to do with it yet, and will never be.
tomatsu 10y ago
> How tightly TS is related to C#? TS is a superset of ES6+. So, not much. Dart is closer to C#, I'd say. C# is a well-designed language, though. You can't say that about the first iterations of JS and none of its baggage was ever dropped for the sake of maintaining backwards compatibility. TS gently pushes you in a more modern direction, which means that those JS issues matter much less in practice. It works pretty well. It does what it's supposed to do; it makes working on larger projects much more manageable. If you write a lot of JS, I highly recommend to check it out.
mpawelski 10y ago
Once sometimes asked me "Isn't Typescript a language for C# developers that don't know JavaScript" It's unfortunate that people think that TS is similar to C# just because it came from Microsoft. Flow language is like 80% similar to TS, but no one says it's similar to C#. TS is just JS + new features from future JS specification + optional type system. And optional type system is fundamentally different than the one in C#, and it was designed to fit well with JS patterns and idioms (structural vs nominal type system) If you look at TS code that looks like C#, it's because JS looks like that (classes syntax, classical inheritance, lambda syntax - it's all ES7 (or ES2016/ES2017, or whatever it's called now)
- ausjke 10y ago
  Thanks. That makes me feel better and I will give TS a shot this holiday.
  - mpawelski 10y ago
    great to hear that :)
  - Fifer82 10y ago
    You won't look back! Will look down at others even!

by ausjke 10y ago

ygra 10y ago

They are not related at all, except in who is their original designer. However, if you are really so fundamentally opposed to anything and everything a certain language represents then you've got to hate a lot of languages for a really, really petty reason.

ausjke 10y ago
For the record I embrace all new stuff except for two, that is Microsoft at-large and systemd.
- pitaj 10y ago
  Oracle should probably on that list
  - ausjke 10y ago
    YES!!! However my projects so far have not had anything to do with it yet, and will never be.

tomatsu 10y ago

> How tightly TS is related to C#? TS is a superset of ES6+. So, not much. Dart is closer to C#, I'd say. C# is a well-designed language, though. You can't say that about the first iterations of JS and none of its baggage was ever dropped for the sake of maintaining backwards compatibility. TS gently pushes you in a more modern direction, which means that those JS issues matter much less in practice. It works pretty well. It does what it's supposed to do; it makes working on larger projects much more manageable. If you write a lot of JS, I highly recommend to check it out.

mpawelski 10y ago

Once sometimes asked me "Isn't Typescript a language for C# developers that don't know JavaScript" It's unfortunate that people think that TS is similar to C# just because it came from Microsoft. Flow language is like 80% similar to TS, but no one says it's similar to C#. TS is just JS + new features from future JS specification + optional type system. And optional type system is fundamentally different than the one in C#, and it was designed to fit well with JS patterns and idioms (structural vs nominal type system) If you look at TS code that looks like C#, it's because JS looks like that (classes syntax, classical inheritance, lambda syntax - it's all ES7 (or ES2016/ES2017, or whatever it's called now)

ausjke 10y ago
Thanks. That makes me feel better and I will give TS a shot this holiday.
- mpawelski 10y ago
  great to hear that :)
- Fifer82 10y ago
  You won't look back! Will look down at others even!