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0 pointsjshen5y ago0 comments

Typescript is not clean because it has to accommodate every crazy thing people do in raw JavaScript.

Having said that, isn’t Deno close to what you’re looking for?

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marmada5y ago· 2 in thread

I actually really like TS's type system precisely because it is insanely flexible.

I can write statically typed code that easily shapes & reshapes objects & code that fits functional or object oriented programming styles.

It's a statically typed language that feels dynamic.

Now, if I were to get a version of TS without all of JS's crutches that would be amazing.

Deno is pretty close, but it lacks on performance & is bounded in potential by JS (in some aspects).

bambataa5y ago

I live in hope that, one day, TS will loosen its links to JS.

Things like `Object.keys` irritate me because they don’t compose well. What would go wrong if TS started supporting `Object.prototype.keys`? Could even be implemented as a rewrite using `Object.keys`.

jshenOP5y ago

I’ve been thinking about this, and I never thought of it before. I would love a language that is both dynamic and static similar to JS and TS. but, when the types are provided, use them to compile to fast code, while keeping the ability to do dynamic scripting.

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