[eksemplar]

Does it add value? I manage enterprise and we’ve tested typescript and found it added little value, but brought in complexity that slowed production.

Type safety isn’t worth having more complex prototypes, and having to keep up with both JS and Tyoescript, for us.

It’s very easy and forgiving to do a proof of concept though, because it integrates so easily into your existing code base.

Just be sure it actually adds real value and isn’t something you do for hype.

I’d certainly utilise it if we were building something as complex as VSC, but we aren’t, and I think it’s important to keep in mind that typescript isn’t all positive gains but that it also has downsides.

[h1d]

Not sure why you're downvoted but for me vanilla JS is like cars running without traffic lights, you know it when you crash but with TS, chance of doing something wrong, like parameters have wrong key or type, before it runs gets less especially under multiple devs.

And then, you can code with TS on the server side as well as take that approach and write with modern language features on the browser side where you still have to write in ES5 (IE11) if it isn't for transpilation and develop with 1 consistent language throughout.