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by vbezhenar
1203 days ago
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I have a bit of experience with TypeScript and I think that its types are pretty good at catching mistakes. You need to run linter (like eslint) and some strict compiler options to take a full advantage of it, but that's not a big deal. And TypeScript type system is miles ahead of Java. I'm not sure if those types provide any productivity increase compared to Java, that's questionable, but at least it's not JavaScript and that's good enough for me. Now JavaScript is truly atrocious hit to productivity. I just can't stand it. My only issue with TypeScript is its strange design with regard to interface and types. Those are pretty fundamental concepts and they're absolutely similar. I don't understand this design and I think that only one thing should have left, but may be I'm wrong about it. Also I think that TypeScript documentation would benefit from more examples with hard concepts, I didn't fully understand its advanced generics concepts. But that's not a big thing and probably more on me. |
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I feel the same way. IIRC, earlier versions of Typescript were much more clearly influenced by .NET and other Microsoft idioms, and there were a few features that didn't seem to make much sense coming from the Javascript side of things. I also had a buddy of mine that's a Java developer be very confused about how they were supposed to work.
> Also I think that TypeScript documentation would benefit from more examples with hard concepts, I didn't fully understand its advanced generics concepts. But that's not a big thing and probably more on me.
Absolutely agree on this, although things are getting better. For awhile it seemed like the only documentation for more advanced features was the main website's blog posts and release notes.