I'm a little shocked at some of the outcry in this thread. People are making it sound like they're switching from Rust to Ruby or extolling the virtues of types: TypeScript does absolutely nothing for you at runtime. There are no types, there are no type checks, its all the same guarantees as good ol' JavaScript. You still can't trust function parameters to be what they say. It's a Babel configuration with inline doc annotations.
If people are serious about types, then why isn't more front-end moving over to Elm, Reason, PureScript, OCaml etc? Hell, GWT is still out here even. TypeScript has convinced people they're getting the benefits of (strong?) types when they're just populating the auto-complete in VS Code.
If people are serious about types, then why isn't more front-end moving over to Elm, Reason, PureScript, OCaml etc? Hell, GWT is still out here even. TypeScript has convinced people they're getting the benefits of (strong?) types when they're just populating the auto-complete in VS Code.