Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
by quonn on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:22AM
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Kotlin is much closer to Java than to TypeScript even in terms of flexibility.
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Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
by DarkNova6 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:30AM
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To me "Flexibility" sounds a lot like "The programmer always knows what he does".
Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
by scotty79 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:27AM
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Flexibility means for me more something more like, I think I know what I want to do but I also know that I'm probably wrong about that, so for now let's skip all the baroque protocol and let me make it work first. Once I'm sure I wrote what I actually wanted I'll add types if only to get rid of some bugs, consider edge cases and earn nice code completions and auto-generated docs.
Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
by sgammon on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:44AM
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Sure, but Kotlin is to Java as TypeScript is to JavaScript, which is the point I am making.
Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
by wiseowise on Friday July 26, 2024 @05:02AM
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That’s not even remotely true.
TypeScript is a direct superset of JavaScript. Any valid JS is a valid TypeScript.
If Kotlin is what TS to JS, then so is Groovy, Scala, Clojure and other JVM languages.
Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
by sgammon on Friday July 26, 2024 @03:29PM
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> TypeScript is a direct superset of JavaScript. Any valid JS is a valid TypeScript.
Kotlin on JVM is a direct superset of Java on JVM. Any valid Java is also valid Kotlin at the bytecode layer.
> If Kotlin is what TS to JS, then so is Groovy, Scala, Clojure and other JVM languages.
Correct