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It's not able to execute TypeScript, but a subset of it. The claim in the title is misleading if not totally wrong. This will unfortunately drive people toward
by primering 1y ago
It's not able to execute TypeScript, but a subset of it. The claim in the title is misleading if not totally wrong.
This will unfortunately drive people towards using TS only as a linter, and not use its powerful features that are inherently impossible to implement with just type stripping.
- bsimpson 1y agoI thought TS abandoned stuff that can't just be stripped. Besides enum, what do you use that isn't strippable?
- chamomeal 1y agoI guess decorators. Which are quite powerful but I’ve never seen them used outside of libraries/frameworks that use them (angular, certain ORMs, nestjs?) As a personal taste I don’t really like decorators that much, but it’s true that nestjs projects (which is probably a majority of new backend TS projects) will not gain anything from this release. Then again, you always set nestjs up with a template anyway that has all of the tooling and building baked in. So whatevs. It’s still a huge huge win, and I finally have hope for typescript-ifying some horrible legacy node apps at work!!
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