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But with this proposal, static typing wouldn't be part of the language. It's just a fancy looking comment. No different than using JSDoc with a nicer syntax

• lagrange77 4y ago
  Ok agreed, i would also like to have the type checker build into the language as well. But in the end, this is a scripting language. Maybe it's not too bad to not enforce it being typed, but provide a baseline to have it being typed optionally, in form of an 'official' annotation syntax. But i'm thinking out loud now.
  • Matheus28 4y ago
    I just think it'd overcomplicate implementations. We already have typescript and such, and they work perfectly. It's my personal belief that integrating those things into the language would slow innovation.
  • kaba0 4y ago
    But we are talking about a language that is streamed over the internet in absurd quantities, and thus has dedicated tools to make it unreadably small as to better utilize bandwidth. Adding any fluff that is not even useful/get utilized on the frontend side is not a good idea.