• alokir@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Typescript is a language, Node is a platform and framework. You can use Typescript in your Node project, they’re not mutually exclusive.

      The way I see it Typescript is more popular than ever, almost all (popular) libraries come with types and every job offer I get they use Typescript.

      And with good reason, our team recently took over a small Javascript app and there are tons of bugs that would never have existed if they were using Typescript. Things like they refactored something but missed to update a reference, or misspelled a variable name, failed to provide a required parameter to a funcrion, referenced a field that existed in another config object etc.

        • I’m not sure this proposal can replace Typescript. It doesn’t support any of the more powerful Typescript features as far as I can tell. Basic types in Javascript are a great step forward, but I don’t expect them to be very popular if they can’t describe things like partial JSON objects for working with APIs.

          Out of all the transpiler steps in “modern” JS, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Typescript suck up all that much performance. Splitting code into streaming files, doing whatever dark magic makes modern JS compatible with IE 9 for some reason, and setting up hot reloads used to be the heaviest part of my workflow. Working with Typescript sucked up a lot of RAM in my IDE, but that as mostly because the types I was working with were created in Javascript that read like code golfing sometimes, generating three or four types for every possible API call.

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      1 year ago

      Managing a node project is like juggling twelve barrels full of monkeys… and those monkeys have rabies. Trying to keep all your dependencies in line is insane.

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        1 year ago

        It is absolutely insane to me that people rag on the Python packing ecosystem when TypeScript exists. Sure, Python’s not perfect (Rust and Go seem better, from the small amount I’ve dabbled with them), but way easier and more stable than any TS project I’ve worked on.