How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript

Re:How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript by AriaMinaei on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:57PM (#21242151)

You're getting in the realm of "projectional editing." It's a fascinating idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534555

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Re:How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript by minxomat on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:16PM (#21242280)

Yep. You can take MPS today and implement an AST projection that looks like whatever you want. No parsing involved, impossible to even write syntactically invalid code (since it is not code you're writing, but an AST projection).

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Re:How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript by switz on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:31PM (#21242767)

I love reading about stuff like this, thanks for sharing. Developer UX still has a lot of room to grow.

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