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Re:Deno will stop using TypeScript by Kinrany on Sunday June 21, 2020 @06:28PM (#23595884)
That quote is not really relevant: TS is as functional as JS.
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Re:Deno will stop using TypeScript by preek on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:16AM (#23597694)
Not really in the same way, though.

I mentioned that paradigms of functional programming languages like Clojure translate well to JavaScript. They do not to typescript, because it is a statically typed language.

If you are interested in why are you dynamically typed language has benefits for functional programming, please see this talk: https://youtu.be/oytL881p-nQ

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Re:Deno will stop using TypeScript by rendall on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:20AM (#23599838)
Typescript typing is fundamentally optional, so this criticism, even if true regarding statically typed languages, does not apply to Typescript.

Typing is optional both for individual variables via the `any` type, and compiler-wide, by configuring it to assume untyped variables are `any` by default.

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Re:Deno will stop using TypeScript by Kinrany on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:45AM (#23601490)
That talk is not about the benefits of dynamically typed languages over statically typed languages. Do you have a specific point in mind?
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