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Re:Angular 2 is terrible by raquo on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:54PM (#13093569)
The problem is, typescript will still silently infer 'any' type in certain cases even with all the no-implicit-any compiler flags enabled, and you'll never know when this happens until you have a bug.

Not to mention that its type system is unsound by design, and not because of null. Typescript only pretends to be safe, so in practice you end up writing a lot of type annotations for very dubious gain.

Stricter options like Facebook Flow or Scala.js are way more useful.

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Re:Angular 2 is terrible by rkwz on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:13PM (#13096455)
> Not to mention that its type system is unsound by design, and not because of null. Typescript only pretends to be safe, so in practice you end up writing a lot of type annotations for very dubious gain. Stricter options like Facebook Flow or Scala.js are way more useful.

Curious, can you explain why Flow is a more "sound" type system than Typescript?

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