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Re:How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes by jakear on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:07PM (#22817151)
> You lose flexibility when suddenly everything is locked to each other by name.

TS uses structural typing.

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Re:How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes by diggan on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:12PM (#22817202)
That's good, compared to the nominative type systems, on that point at least!

I'm just trying to help the person I'm replying to to see more arguments in favor of dynamic systems without types, not necessarily straightly aimed at TypeScript as they mainly mentioned just types.

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