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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by goodoldneon on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:52PM (#27169704)
AFAIK, the only difference between TS and JS is types. TS doesn't give you anything that's functionally different than JS -- only types that are stripped during compilation. You can't perform any logic on types at all (e.g. you can't have conditional logic based on interfaces).

Comparing assembly/C to JS/TS doesn't make sense.

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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by CRConrad on Sunday May 16, 2021 @05:15PM (#27177064)
Yeah, and the only difference between C and machine code is that C hasn't been compiled yet. The comparison makes perfect sense.
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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by goodoldneon on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:40PM (#27177750)
Writing TypeScript is like writing JavaScript but with type annotations. Writing C is not like writing assembly with type annotations.
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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by CRConrad on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:31AM (#27180335)
> Writing TypeScript is like writing JavaScript but...

...but different.

> Writing C is not like writing assembly...

...it's different.

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