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I think this is more directed at C# users. The focus of TS is to let tooling (specifically Visual Studio) do the same stuff it does in C#. They tried and failed
by Touche 13y ago
I think this is more directed at C# users. The focus of TS is to let tooling (specifically Visual Studio) do the same stuff it does in C#. They tried and failed to make VS good for JS.
- nawitus 13y agoWell, even if it's directed at C# by Microsoft, it's used by a lot of people that are not into Visual Studio or Microsoft. TypeScript is a lot more than "IDE tooling", even though proper intellisense makes it a lot of nicer to develop. It's not like Microsoft somehow failed to make VS good for JS, it's theoretically impossible to make VS do to JS what TS can do for any IDE.
- shaneofalltrad 13y ago"it's used by a lot of people that are not into Visual Studio or Microsoft" Really? Who? I just don't see them or they must be really good at abstracting away this activity.
- brokenparser 13y agoI haven't seen any Papuan, ever. Doesn't mean they don't exist. As a side project, I'm creating a framework to build Gjs applications using TypeScript. The neat thing is that the compiler can easily create a combined JavaScript file, which when appended to a stub JS file results in a single executable for installation. The bad part is that the supplied lib.d.ts contains definitions for objects that don't exist. See https://wiki.gnome.org/JavaScript https://wiki.gnome.org/JavaScript
- jasallen 13y agoI love VS for javascript. With ReSharper installed it is great. I guess maybe I answered my own question by admitting I need a JetBrains tool in there but: What tool is so great for Javascript? I use Sublime a lot as well on my Mac, and I don't like it as well.
- Touche 13y ago> What tool is so great for Javascript? Chrome/Firefox dev tools.
- judah 13y agoAs a regular user of Chrome dev tools, they're nice, but it's no Visual Studio.
- mixonic 13y agojshint is an excellent tool for static analysis.
- colin_jack 13y agoFor me its Sublime and Chrome Dev Tools.
- Goosey 13y agoMy sibling comments (at time of post) point out Chrome/Firefox dev tools and jshint.. Which I also use every day integrated into the same development flow. Perhaps the question is better posed as "What IDE is so great for Javascript?" FWIW I use VS2012 for Javascript development daily. I also add in ReSharper, the wonderful Web Essentials extension (http://vswebessentials.com/ http://vswebessentials.com/) and a few other extensions I adore ('Productivity Power Tools 2012' and 'Highlight all occurrences of a selected word'). I find the result to be exceptionally good.
- sireat 13y agoWebstorm is pretty awesome for Javascript, but then again what else can you expect from JetBrains?
- egeozcan 13y agoI agree, never had any disappointment with them. Some may think I'm exaggerating but what I see is they are contributing to Visual Studio's success more than Microsoft.
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- jbigelow76 13y ago>They tried and failed to make VS good for JS VS 2013 is actually very nice for Javascript development. The only place it really falls down still is management for pure JS projects. SublimeText still beats it there for grouping JS files together just by folder instead of Visual Studio's need for clunky "solution" and "project" files. But Visual Studio's Angular support is awesome.
- pjmlp 13y ago> But Visual Studio's Angular support is awesome. Netbeans as of 7.4 seems also quite nice. Just as extra info. I also like VS.
- shaneofalltrad 13y agoExactly, with 1 or 2% of the market using TS the only reason to not use vanilla JS is because it is to complicated for you and you want to replicate a C# experience. That's a shame because you loose a lot of the advantages of pure JS. And, if you want to use an IDE over say vim or Notepads, then Webstorm is the best.