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> JS and TS brought so much happiness to me for years. But I found it extremely difficult to constantly have to "decide" between X and Y. At least for me it w
by _fat_santa 5y ago
> JS and TS brought so much happiness to me for years. But I found it extremely difficult to constantly have to "decide" between X and Y.
At least for me it was never a decision once I found TS, TS always got chosen. My spicy opinion in the JS space is that Typescript is better in every single way over Javascript, it is a superior language. Typescript IMO should be merged into Javascript, how anyone develops with just JS anymore (especially larger projects) baffles me.
- hajile 5y agoTS has a lot of DNA from the failed ES4 attempt. I think we need something quite a bit more radical than Typescript. We have "use strict" and I think we need to add "use types" too. In that mode, we need to disallow the more dynamic parts of JS. They add TONS of typing headaches resulting in poorly-typed projects and they hurt performance too. This could allow for a much more simple type system and allow a path forward where things like type coercion aren't a thing.
- potsandpans 5y agoCouldn't agree more. I want to see a "mostly pure" occurence type system with refinement types and HKTs on a SUBSET of ECMA.