Ask HN: Why don't we introduce static types in EcmaScript?

Posted by dhandalanawaz on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

It'll make very little sense to use TypeScript / other projects like Flow if this was the case and this would make JavaScript a LOT faster.

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't we introduce static types in EcmaScript? by vtesucks on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:43AM (#18550117)

An alternate way of asking the same question- why don't we have typescript runtime in browser.

The answer is political. Microsoft can't create it in edge because they would be blamed for trying to fragment the web. Everybody else has no reason to.

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't we introduce static types in EcmaScript? by cimmanom on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:17AM (#18550473)

Why would Microsoft have more reason than Google, Mozilla, or Apple?

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