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The negative/cynical take: They're rearranging their internal deck chairs and spending time and effort on making their code pretty, rather than changing TypeScr
by mkozlows 12y ago
The negative/cynical take: They're rearranging their internal deck chairs and spending time and effort on making their code pretty, rather than changing TypeScript (maligned, little-used, and little-loved) to be more relevant somehow.
I have no doubt that the slowness is a major complaint they get from TypeScript users, but at their current level of success/failure, they probably should be listening more to TypeScript non-users than users.
- cpeterso 12y agoA project having enough time to schedule big rewrites (instead of new features) is often a bad sign.
- mkehrt 12y agoI'm not sure that makes sense for typescript. It's aiming to be a very conservative extension of JS. Adding new features moves away from that goal.
- nimish 12y agoTypeScript is heavily used inside Microsoft. The Azure preview portal is mostly typescript. I suspect they had this in the works for a while and couldn't make build.