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Sort of. An example is that you can't use regular expressions the same way. I'm turnt that you have to construct a new Regex in order to use a regex.
The typing system doesn't feel very strong to me either. It feels much more like duck typing than actual type safety to me, but this is also coming from someone who has a pretty extensive career using Java.
I get that for certain things there's compile-time checking that can help you not make mistakes, but I'm still failing to justify the time you gave to spend accounting for those things while also remaining productive.
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Typescript is JavaScript - isn't it? It's a super set, right? Any regular Javascript is valid TypeScript, syntactically.
Sort of. An example is that you can't use regular expressions the same way. I'm turnt that you have to construct a
new Regexin order to use a regex.The typing system doesn't feel very strong to me either. It feels much more like duck typing than actual type safety to me, but this is also coming from someone who has a pretty extensive career using Java.
I get that for certain things there's compile-time checking that can help you not make mistakes, but I'm still failing to justify the time you gave to spend accounting for those things while also remaining productive.