Re:State of JavaScript 2021
by potsandpans on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:36PM
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Couldn't agree more. I want to see a "mostly pure" occurence type system with refinement types and HKTs on a SUBSET of ECMA.
I think we need something quite a bit more radical than Typescript.
We have "use strict" and I think we need to add "use types" too.
In that mode, we need to disallow the more dynamic parts of JS. They add TONS of typing headaches resulting in poorly-typed projects and they hurt performance too.
This could allow for a much more simple type system and allow a path forward where things like type coercion aren't a thing.