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Discussion on: TypeScript is a waste of time. Change my mind.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

I use both TypeScript and Coffeescript.
Both have their utility.

When I wrote my open-source Tetris attack clone I ended up porting it from Coffeescript to TypeScript?Why? Because the joining developers had a really hard time walking into that codebase that was implicit. Switching to Typescript means you had to define all your Class properties so you knew what was going on in that class, even with weak typing, everything was more verbose.

When I set out to build my own javascript Framework DilithiumJs I decided to use Coffeescript? Why not Typescript? Because building web-apps is routine business, having a productive, concise language fits really well.