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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by WClayFerguson on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:17PM (#25806818)
Proxy is part of JS. When did I ever say ANYTHING in JS is typesafe? Nothing in JS is typesafe.

However this is also simultaneously true: You can code in TypeScript and achieve 100% type safety by putting types on everything. If I claim all cubes can be painted red, you can't disprove that by proving green cubes exist.

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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by 29athrowaway on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:50AM (#25808510)
And what does TypeScript compile to? JavaScript.

Does TypeScript forbid using JavaScript features? no.

Can TypeScript realistically verify that your program is type-safe? no.

Is TypeScript 100% type-safe? no. They wanted fast adoption, therefore they allowed JavaScript and untyped variables.

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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by WClayFerguson on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:11PM (#25812441)
You can go into my 250,000 loc project and randomly pick any variable name, method name, parameter name, etc., and put a typo in it or wrong type, and the compiler will catch it.

I have 100% type safety, and it's all done by TypeScript and my programming language IS TypeScript (not JS)

The the final output format generated by a compiler has absolutely nothing to do with whether the Language being compiled is typesafe or not. That would be like saying since Bytecode is not typesafe therefore Java is not a type safe language.

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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by 29athrowaway on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:55PM (#25817332)
TypeScript is not the only way to achieve that.

Google closure compiler and JetBrains IDEs can use JSdoc to validate types. I have used those to a reasonable level of accuracy to document entire JavaScript projects where I cannot migrate to TypeScript.

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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by WClayFerguson on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:59PM (#25817955)
Excellent. Rock on man. I never thought I'd be a Microsoft fan again, but after they invented TypeScript/VSCode, I love them so much I might move to Redmond.
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