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The issue has always been that people start these projects, see just how big/hard checking the whole of TypeScript is and don't finish it. It would be awesome
by inglor 3y ago
The issue has always been that people start these projects, see just how big/hard checking the whole of TypeScript is and don't finish it.
It would be awesome if you finished it :]
- specialist 3y agoNaw. Projects like these are useful reninders that 25 years of mitigation easily save a few weeks of initial design.
- postalrat 3y agoPerfected developers don't need two weeks of initial design or any mitigation.
- pharmakom 3y agodoes TS even have a spec? I thought the type checking rules are basically "whatever tsc does"
- pjmlp 3y agoWhich means being always behind. I rather have the Typescript team improve the experience, on their bootstrapped compiler.
- presentation 3y agoYeah, stc seems to be just using the TypeScript test suite as a proxy for completeness. Pretty far along, but unclear when it will actually be usable. https://stc.dudy.dev/blog/this-week-in-stc/week-23 https://stc.dudy.dev/blog/this-week-in-stc/week-23
- jillesvangurp 3y agoThere is a specification but it's fallen a bit behind the implementation. Of course the implementation is open source, pretty well documented and covered in lots of tests. So, you could think of that as a living specification. Some pointers from this stackoverflow discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52148566/is-the-typescript-language-specification-document-up-to-date https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52148566/is-the-typescri...