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> 2006 era JS was more than sufficient to build out highly maintainable 100k+ LOC codebases Typescript wouldn't have been created if this was the case.
by tasogare 5y ago
> 2006 era JS was more than sufficient to build out highly maintainable 100k+ LOC codebases
Typescript wouldn't have been created if this was the case.
- puppet-master 5y agoTypescript was about bringing the culture of static languages to a language design that explicitly rejected it. Large JS codebases already existed in 2006 (Gmail, ..)
- lifthrasiir 5y agoAs far as I know Gmail used the Closure compiler which can be considered as a spiritual precursor to TypeScript. Also several Google service frontends were in fact based on GWT and written in Java.
- junon 5y agoMicrosoft creates useless things all the time and pushes them until they're finally accepted.