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0 pointsnmjohn11y ago0 comments

Okay so if you don't use types, wouldn't you would just be writing vanilla javascript and would have no reason to use typescript in the first place though?

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lmm11y ago

It has a somewhat nicer syntax for functions and better scoping rules, but you could certainly get that from a more lightweight js extension like coffeescript yeah.

klibertp11y ago

Not exactly, there is still type inference mechanism at work which, combined with DefinitelyTyped (https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped) declarations will get you quite a lot type safety even if you won't write any type declaration by yourself.

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0 pointsnmjohn11y ago0 comments

Okay so if you don't use types, wouldn't you would just be writing vanilla javascript and would have no reason to use typescript in the first place though?

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lmm11y ago

It has a somewhat nicer syntax for functions and better scoping rules, but you could certainly get that from a more lightweight js extension like coffeescript yeah.

klibertp11y ago

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