[Aeolun]

I can sympathize with their issues. TS compiles are slow as fuck, and if I could find anything that was just as nice without the long compiles I’d switch in a heartbeat.

But I don’t think I’d ever want to go back to plain Javascript.

[112]

There are efforts to provide faster compilation times: - https://github.com/evanw/esbuild - awesome, I use it for most of my ts projects - https://swc-project.github.io/ - also awesome, but has some bugs

[Aeolun]

Esbuild is cool, but if it doesn’t check the types then using Typescript is a bit pointless in the first place.

Guess a combination of esbuild during development, and tsc during commit would be the best of both worlds.

[satvikpendem]

Not necessarily, TS issues are found in the editor which is where most of the use is. I don't test types only on compile but usually through VSCode itself.

[8lall0]

Thumbs up for esbuild, it's awesome.

[rclayton]

My sentiment as well.