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Chad Windham

I work on a big team writing typescript every day. The more I use typescript the more I dislike it. Yes, there are all the "super cool reasons" people have about typescript "being safer" (it's not) or speeding up project development by shortening the debugging process (it doesn't). It is very, very hard for me to see any true value to writing a bloated version of a language that trans-piles to the same language it bloated in the first place. My experience, lots of claims about typescript that look good on paper, don't really pan out in real world development (as in, if it does help in the ways that it claims, the amount it improves is so minimal that I can't perceive it). I've said it before and I'll say it again, typescript is made for developers that hate javascript and want to not write javascript, simple as that.

Just to be clear, I personally hate typescript, but to anybody out there who loves it, relax, its cool. I'm glad you like it. And as a stand alone language, I would love writing typescript, I just hate writing a bloated superset of javascript that is trans-piled back to javascript. I think the maker of Node.js is actually about to release a new project, basically Node but with typescript (not using typescript to write javascript, but actually server side code that is just written in typescript). And if/when that happens, I'll fully support it and hope it takes off. But until then, I'm hoping that Hypescript stops being cool...

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Mihail Malo

By "release", do you mean Deno reaching v1.0?

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Chad Windham

Yeah good point. I suppose that is pretty much what I meant. In all honesty it isn't something I've been keeping up with strongly, last I heard about it, it was still in the planning to do this but haven't started phase (so quite a while...) so thanks for sharing that link! ;)