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Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually by jchw on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:18AM (#17082568)
TypeScript offers a compelling case, however. It often can provide the refactoring superpowers of strong statically typed languages on top of JS, and its brand of structural typing allows for quite expressive, but type safe, programs.

That being said, TypeScript is not sound and obviously in a real TypeScript program you'll eventually touch things that are untyped. But still, getting a different set of trade-offs than "statically typed" and "dynamically typed" is useful. It makes me wish there was something like this for Python (no, MyPy and Pyre are not this. They only provide nominal typing, which is definitely not good enough for everyday Python like Django.)

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Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually by WorldMaker on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:08PM (#17085459)
It's useful having a spectrum types. I personally prefer noImplicitAny in Typescript as that lets me choose which battles to pick and while I often leave more `any` typed things than I would like, I have the `any` keyword as an explicit TODO marker of those places where I gave up, so I can go back and fix them as needed/time permits/tech debt requires.
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