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What text editor did you use before? I think the biggest advantage is an IDE, not the language itself.
by z3t4 6y ago
What text editor did you use before? I think the biggest advantage is an IDE, not the language itself.
- RussianCow 6y agoAs a daily user of IntelliJ IDEA—which, IME, has the best autocomplete and code suggestions of any IDE for dynamically typed languages—there is a world of a difference between the quality of suggestions for a codebase using TypeScript and one written in vanilla JS. Without concrete types, the IDE often has to guess the possible type(s) that a value can have, whereas with TS, there is (generally) no such ambiguity.
- scpedicini 6y agoI don't really experience this issue and I use Web storm which is basically the same thing. I find that the dynamic type hinting plus the combination of using JS Doc formatted comments rarely leaves me with any ambiguity when writing vanilla JavaScript.
- raytracer 6y agoAre you using types in your JS Doc comments? If so, that's not vanilla JavaScript.
- z3t4 6y agoJS Doc is just comments. (But the typechecker can still read them.)
- DrScientist 6y agoIt is because it runs in the browser unprocessed. You edit a file and reload, no munging pipeline,