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minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·27 days ago TypeScript, for those who aren’t familiar, is a Microsoft rewrite of JavaScript that’s incompatible with basic JavaScript in multiple ways Wut
minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·27 days agoYeah, that’s uhh… that’s technically true for very strange and specific definitions of “compatibility”… but it wildly misses the point of TypeScript. Not sure what he was thinking there.
minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·27 days agoYeah node’s --experimental-strip-types exposes the absurdity immediately. The only incompatibility is that it has type annotations.
minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·27 days agoAlso, like… the fact that it has a compiler. It’s like saying C is incompatible with assembly because you can’t yeet a .c file at an assembler.
Wut
Yeah, that’s uhh… that’s technically true for very strange and specific definitions of “compatibility”… but it wildly misses the point of TypeScript. Not sure what he was thinking there.
Yeah node’s
--experimental-strip-typesexposes the absurdity immediately. The only incompatibility is that it has type annotations.Also, like… the fact that it has a compiler. It’s like saying C is incompatible with assembly because you can’t yeet a .c file at an assembler.