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Re:Lisk: Blockchain development in JavaScript by latchkey on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:18PM (#15137691)
> we are planning an eventual transition to TypeScript

Just switch today. That's kind of silly to write a whole bunch of untyped code and then move to types. Especially since you can do it over time with TS.

All these tests that something is a string... why not let a compiler do that for you?

https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk/blob/development/test/api/acc...

Re:Lisk: Blockchain development in JavaScript by chauey on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:10AM (#15139492)
yep i love Typescript! Been using it with Angular 2 and Angular 4. I come from a C#/.NET background and don't want to go back. I even co-founded a .NET user group and the name of my company has ".NET" in it! No reason to not use TypeScript.. Can use what you want or continue writing javascript in the .ts files. Might need to change some default settings, don't know, i've had NO reason to NOT get all these autocomplete/intellisense/advice/errors/warnings/best-practices.