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It does smell like someone's pet project. I'm wondering what the folk at Microsoft had not figured out, that they indeed had at Figma. Typescript is open source
by dfgdfg34545456 2y ago
It does smell like someone's pet project. I'm wondering what the folk at Microsoft had not figured out, that they indeed had at Figma. Typescript is open source, so why wasn't this optimisation just made as a contribution to Typescript at the time?
Also, was Typescript really as claimed in its "infancy" at the time mentioned in the article? They didn't mention a particular year.
- wewxjfq 2y agoIt's something Typescript doesn't want to do. Their goal is to remove the type annotations, maybe add some code for backwards compatibility, and otherwise do as little as possible to stray from the untyped JavaScript equivalent.
- mirekrusin 2y agoLet's not paint pet projects black. Most things we're using today were somebody's pet projects including linux, llvm/clang, swift etc.
- dfgdfg34545456 2y ago>Let's not paint pet projects black. I don't follow. Where did I do this?
- Drakim 2y ago> It does smell like someone's pet project. "Smell" has negative connotations in English. If you say that "this code smells" it means it's bad, and likewise it's very easy to read your "It does smell like" as you meaning it's a bad thing.
- dfgdfg34545456 2y agoThank you for the English lesson, but it's a big leap from this supposed connotation to "painting pet projects black".
- mpalmer 2y agoNot so great a leap; every part of your comment implies you think they made a strange decision going the route of using someone's pet project.
- apantel 2y agoWith enough investment, a pet project can become a mature platform.
- p_l 2y agoUnix and C were pet projects until they enabled secretaries to better write patent proposals.