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imagine how amazing it would be if every major browser tomorrow suddenly dropped support for JS entirely and said that they only run typescript now. It will be

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• hollowturtle 2y ago
  What would be the point? Why waste time parsing and ignoring types? Types are for static analysis during comp time, they have nothing to do with the runtime and they don't provide "type hints" to the runtime about types, and code isn't optimized based on static typing analysis. Or should the browser do that? In that case which version of TypeScript? And by version I actually mean which tsconfig? Sorry for being picky but can't image why we would want something like that. If all we wanted was a compiled runtime like flash/actionscript was then I wonder why we killed flash
  • vivzkestrel 2y ago
    it would get rid of babel immediately and the billions of hours of transpile time spent across the planet by people converting ts into js. You ll be able to run ts natively without transpilation across every major browser
• dimitropoulos 2y ago
  I think that would be a big loss for TypeScript and a very unfortunate thing for the whole ecosystem.