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How My Coffee Maker Taught Me to Love Types

Mario Vega on July 17, 2019

TypeScript. That one word had hung around the edges of my consciousness for months. VS Code would suggest the .ts extension for every new file I c...
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Maciek Grzybek

Is that… CoffeeScript?

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Adam Crockett 🌀 • Edited

TypeCoffeeScript now that would be interesting.

github.com/michaelficarra/CoffeeSc...

Looks like that's a thing, funded project aswell.

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Mario Vega

I did, in fact, originally include a CoffeeScript pun in this post. It felt forced, so I took it out and left the setup for a particularly astute commenter ;)

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fischgeek

I've seen this post float by my feed a few times. Finally I decided to read it. I must say, you have a talent for story telling. I was riveted. Fantastic story and really well done. Thanks for the good read!

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

What a great story! You combined my two favorite things TypeScript and Coffee ☕️

Bringing types to JavaScript is possibly the best part of TypeScript. I also love how TypeScript allows you to code with future spec as well. The TypeScript compiler is pretty incredible too.

Cheers!