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Re:Angular 2 Final Released by boubiyeah on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:23PM (#12507445)
Too bad flow doesn't work as well as typescript in practice. It has way more bugs, is not as tested.

It was very promising at first but typescript now has caught up with Flow best design decision: noImplicitAny, strictNullChecks.

Also, check on the "try typescript" website: typescript's JS output is almost left untouched. it's effectively a replacement for babel, if you only care for ES2015 stuff, and not some of the more recent stage 0 / stage 1 stuff.

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Re:Angular 2 Final Released by devdoomari on Saturday September 17, 2016 @06:34AM (#12519948)
this. tried flow, but it's too 'smart' for my iMac to handle. Flow reads all JS files without problems - which killed my iMac after using 6>gb ram. a partial solution was to manually set ignore on some node_modules packages. but still, really slow experience with atom/subl/etc.

Compared to this, typescript is actually dumb enough to require ts definition files to actually parse non-ts (js) files.

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