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Discussion on: Tossing TypeScript

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Basti Ortiz

Wow. Hegel looks very promising, but I'd imagine the build times to exponentially soar. I'd say this is an option worth considering particularly for the front-end (i.e. clients and front-facing APIs).

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

You know that even tsc (or ts-node / ts-node-dev) can be slow to compile, right? Not as bad as Gradle, though.

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Basti Ortiz • Edited

Yup, I believe I am too familiar with that reality. 😂

I just figured that the additional runtime checks make compilation more computationally expensive, hence the longer build times than "just" TypeScript.