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by BoorishBears 2687 days ago
That's not what a leaky abstraction is.
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An abstraction that doesn't properly hide what's under the hood and requires people to still be aware of it. That's exactly what TS is.
Ts doesn’t abstract away Js.

It’s a superset of Js, almost the “opposite” of an abstraction (at least in the common intent of an abstraction)