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by free_everybody 3135 days ago
What's wrong with Typescript? Also, why does it matter to you? Genuinely curious.
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z3t4 3135 days ago
It's like having Leonard Cohen transpiled to Justin Bieber. Now look at it from the Justin Bieber fans point of view, why would they listen to Leonard Cohen in order to hear Justin Bieber ? Even though research says Leonard Cohen makes better music! From Leonard Cohen fan's point of view it doesn't matter as they only hear Leonard Cohen, not Justin.
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free_everybody 3135 days ago
I'm having a really hard time making sense of that analogy...
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frik 3135 days ago
Curious, Why does it matter to you?

On the Atom.io website https://atom.io/ it reads "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". Well I can code in JavaScript 5 and 6. I love love it when a project sticks to web standard, and not have to worry about slangs I don't care about.

> Typescript is great at catching bugs

The same with JavaScript. Google Closure compiler and anyway most IDEs "understand" JavaScript too and catch bugs. JavaScript is dynamically typed not typeless.

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marcoms 3135 days ago
Typescript is great at catching bugs which would trickle down to the end user
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free_everybody 3135 days ago
I was surprised to see someone who cared what style of javascript a program is written in, especially if they aren't an active contributor. Maybe you are?
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