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Re:TypeScript please give us types by Nullabillity on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:29PM (#36639631)
But tst-reflect seems to work by effectively building their own forked tsc compiler.
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Re:TypeScript please give us types by paxys on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:40PM (#36639713)
No, they have a plugin into the typescript compiler which uses their API. tsc already exposes all of the info they need.
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Re:TypeScript please give us types by Dylan16807 on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:10PM (#36640339)
Okay so it's not a forked compiler but it's adding a feature to the compiler.

At which point it makes a lot of sense to ask why that feature shouldn't be merged.

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Re:TypeScript please give us types by auggierose on Saturday July 08, 2023 @04:32AM (#36642523)
Because of feature creep. I don't need that feature. Don't merge things that can be kept separate. It is called modularity.
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Re:TypeScript please give us types by Nullabillity on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:44AM (#36645473)
According to their (tst-reflect's) README, tsc doesn't support plugins. The plugin support comes from a fork called ttsc.
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