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Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript by tomjen3 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:33AM (#41065818)
The typesystem of Java was so laughably unpowerful that it severely constrained what you could write.

In Typescript you have far more freedom, and all the benefits of strong types.

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Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript by DarkNova6 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:14AM (#41066130)
Strong types without strong typing that is.
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Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript by yen223 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:47AM (#41068034)
The fact that Java forced you to write types, and then made everything implicitly nullable so that you still get NullPointerExceptions at runtime after writing out all those types, was probably a big reason why dynamically-typed languages became popular.
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