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I think TypeScript is about as standard for Javascript as it's going to get, I feel. I can't imagine writing Javascript without it anymore. But then again it to
by cableshaft 6y ago
I think TypeScript is about as standard for Javascript as it's going to get, I feel. I can't imagine writing Javascript without it anymore. But then again it took TypeScript coming along that made writing JavaScript something tolerable outside of having to use it for work.
I don't think there's going to be any new typing system that's 5% better that everyone is going to shift to just because it's the new hotness anymore. Or at least I hope not. TypeScript is good enough, let's just stick with it for the foreseeable future if you want to write type-safe Javascript, please.
I'm still using Angular at work, and I rather like it. If I needed to make an SPA outside of work I'd probably use it over React at this point. But that's a web framework, and those seem to come and go with the wind.
- runawaybottle 6y agoWell, if it’s that standard it could be put into the ES spec, and if that ever happens, Babel will deprecate Typescript. That’s all it would take before Typescript will become another relic. I am not opposed to Typescript, but I am trying to show that we’ve been here before many times.
- purerandomness 6y agoHave you been around last time, when CoffeeScript definitely was here to stay? Or that other time, when Dart was almost here to stay, and on its way to replace JavaScript?
- gherkinnn 6y agoCoffeescript was here to stay? I always saw it as a seki-esoteric language people sprinkled their CV with. Dart was a push by Google but went nowhere. TS drives Angular, has first-class support on React and soon in Vue. Most libs have TS typings. Nextjs (amongst others) provide easy TS integration. It’s being pushed by M$, C# and Java like seem to like it and Enterprise (tm) adopts it. It’s an entirely different beast.