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> my perception of TS is that is a tool that removes friction between the language (JS) and tooling without really addressing anything core to the language itse
by yawaramin 6y ago
> my perception of TS is that is a tool that removes friction between the language (JS) and tooling without really addressing anything core to the language itself.
I don't understand what that means. How is TypeScript removing friction between JavaScript and tooling? That doesn't make any sense. TypeScript is a typechecker and a language that compiles to JavaScript.
- klodolph 6y agoI’d say that TypeScript removes friction in the sense that you can use autocomplete fairly easily with it, out of the box. Using autocomplete without type annotations is pretty hard.
- thayne 6y agoAlso, things like automated/safe refactoring, jump to definition, find all usages, etc.
- yawaramin 6y agoOK but then that's ... not actually a criticism? And when the person I replied to says, 'doesn't address issues of the language itself', that's not actually even accurate. TypeScript addresses several large sources of errors in every codebase, like null or undefined errors.