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Re:TypeScript Roadmap 2019 by austincheney on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:26AM (#18854808)
I disagree. Perhaps I am in the minority on this, I don't know. I care about types and don't care about intellisence. I write lots of atomic algorithms that are super-independent, independent of each other but also compensating for the changes by each other, and make heavy use of scope. It is very important to my code that things execute efficiently and accurately.
Re:TypeScript Roadmap 2019 by z3t4 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:03AM (#18863848)
I do not understand what you mean. But it sounds like you are into functional programming !? Which works fine without type annotations. For example:

const sum = (number, number) => number+number

Where type annotations becomes unnecessary verbose.

Re:TypeScript Roadmap 2019 by austincheney on Friday January 11, 2019 @12:58AM (#18881326)
True. Consider this example:

    props.removes[cc] !== props.last.margin
TypeScript's strict types will see the error if the those are not the same data type. A TypeScript aware editor will yell at me before I compile the code. Perhaps what I really wanted is:

    props.removes[cc][0] !== props.last.margin
In JavaScript I would have to execute the code. If the code doesn't throw an error then I would have to examine the output to see if the resulting data structure matches what I expect. If not I have to run tests and track down the error. Then once the error is found and resolved I have to write unit tests for this scenario.
Re:TypeScript Roadmap 2019 by z3t4 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:50AM (#18891655)
You can use an auto-generated intermediate format when running the tests, that check each member object, give test coverage, etc. Eg. a tool that parses the code and inserts a bunch of checks above each member access. So you start with plain JavaScript, and you ship plain JavaScript.