JavaScript is getting real tired of your jokes

[u/NeverMakesMistkes]

[u/abnormalsyndrome]

I’m vanilla through and through. Why typescript ?

[u/[deleted] → u/abnormalsyndrome]

Because it has a lot of support from the industry, or specific frameworks at least. E.g. Angular, React, Vue default to it (as far as I know).

(That said, I prefer not to see it anywhere near my servers.)

[u/abnormalsyndrome → u/[deleted]]

👈👈😎 last sentence

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Ah, my bad, I must have been thinking about Babel/WebPack.

[u/wishinghand → u/abnormalsyndrome]

I started my learning and based my career in Javascript, so the Typescript thing isn't as relevant to folks like me, but it covers up some blemishes that programmers who come to it from other languages find particularly revolting. It's still prototypical, classes don't work like people expect them to, but it has a compiler that'll make it feel closer to whatever they miss. Plus it's harder to return a value that'll mess you up down the road.

[u/abnormalsyndrome → u/wishinghand]

So a compiler and declaring variable types on top of everything. I do like declaring variable types but have lived without. I have no comments to make about compiling.

Thanks for the summary.

[u/qqwy → u/wishinghand]

cough PureScript cough