Re:TypeScript at Slack
by whatever_dude on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:50AM
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My $0.02, as someone who loves TS:
> TypeScript has larger community.
It kind of depends. In some circles Flow is bigger. Mind that it is heavily entrenched in everything Facebook does, so it's treated as a built-in, first-class citizen in many circles (e.g. React Native).
> Flow requires Babel. TypeScript doesn't.
I'm not sure I agree. Objectively, depending on the kind of Flow you write, you don't really require any transpilation step.
Plus, subjectively, using Babel with TypeScript should not be frowned upon - there's a lot of advantages that Babel can provide that are outside of the scope of what TypeScript tries to do. Personally I use it to provide shims (via babel-preset-env) so I can target older browsers based on version configurations.
> TypeScript has larger community.
It kind of depends. In some circles Flow is bigger. Mind that it is heavily entrenched in everything Facebook does, so it's treated as a built-in, first-class citizen in many circles (e.g. React Native).
> Flow requires Babel. TypeScript doesn't.
I'm not sure I agree. Objectively, depending on the kind of Flow you write, you don't really require any transpilation step.
Plus, subjectively, using Babel with TypeScript should not be frowned upon - there's a lot of advantages that Babel can provide that are outside of the scope of what TypeScript tries to do. Personally I use it to provide shims (via babel-preset-env) so I can target older browsers based on version configurations.