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Re:Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) by mirekrusin on Thursday March 07, 2024 @10:30AM (#39630286)
Flow has about a dozen of important features that typescript lacks (while being 10x smaller in terms of LoC).
Re:Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) by dcre on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:00PM (#39631335)
Flow is basically a dead project outside of Facebook.

https://npmtrends.com/@babel/preset-flow-vs-flow-bin-vs-type...

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) by diggan on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:05PM (#39631387)
Not that I think download metrics is the best metric to decide that, but even with that, flow-bin has almost half a million of downloads per day. That's far away from dead, at least in my world. And I'm guessing that doesn't count anything from Facebook as they most likely run their own registries.
Re:Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) by dcre on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:21PM (#39631611)
flow-bin has substantially fewer downloads than coffeescript and both are declining. That is a dead project.

https://npmtrends.com/coffeescript-vs-flow-bin

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) by mirekrusin on Thursday March 07, 2024 @05:02PM (#39635097)
It's not as popular as typescript but not dead, it's consistently active for a decade [0].

Compare it with typescript [1] contributions if you want.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/flow/graphs/contributors

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/graphs/contributors

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) by mirekrusin on Friday March 08, 2024 @11:40AM (#39642804)
Don't you find it interesting that node-fetch is slightly less-dead otherwise has exactly the same "aliveness" as typescript [0] from your source (click 5 years)?

[0] https://npmtrends.com/node-fetch-vs-typescript