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blencdr | 7 years ago

have you even tried to use TypeScript on a real project to say something like that ?

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He's possibly meaning that if you completely rewrite framework it would lead to something like what happened to Angular when it was rewritten and promptly lost huge number of followers/users?

davedx|7 years ago

Angular didn't lose mindshare because of TypeScript, it lost mindshare because they completely changed the API of Angular, meaning a bunch of companies had to do expensive ports/complete rewrites/switch to new tech. A lot of companies are still stuck on Angular 1 for this reason.

Most Angular devs I know are happy to use TypeScript. (In fact going out on a limb, most JS devs I know).

nightski|7 years ago

That is amusing because Vue was already rewritten for V2 when they introduced the shadow Dom.

SZJX|7 years ago

Typescript is very similar to plain JS. The type annotation is purely optional. I really bought into the optional type annotation pattern when I learned and used Julia for a project. Typescript is also like that. It's extremely unintrusive to use and I'm quite sure such a huge shift as the one that happened in Angular won't happen.

Fifer82|7 years ago

Was that really a thing though? People cried because they didn't understand the offer of better tooling.