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TypeScript intentionally strikes a balance between strict soundness and developer productivity, and I've personally been pretty happy with that balance. There's
by alangpierce 9y ago
TypeScript intentionally strikes a balance between strict soundness and developer productivity, and I've personally been pretty happy with that balance. There's more to language design than soundness, and I've been happy with TypeScript's willingness to get out of my way for little snippets of unsafe code, especially when interfacing with external libraries. Within my own code, I've never had the unsoundness actually cause problems.
- skolemtotem 9y agoHonestly I only use TypeScript for its lovely autocomplete. I'm pretty certain that JavaScript autocomplete could never be this good.
- Bizarro 9y agoHear, Hear. At the same time, Typescript's type system is getting so complicated, and the syntax so fugly because of it, that I'm tempted to go back to straight ES6.