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Re:The Saga of the Closure Compiler, and Why TypeScript Won by paulddraper on Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:24PM (#37696097)
That is correct. It was heavily Java inspired. (And the compiler itself is written in Java).

But the same is true of JSDoc.

There weren't any popular type systems that weren't like Java.

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Also, there are some notable departures, e.g. union types.

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