[jauco]

Also the release that drops typescript transforms: https://github.com/nodejs/typescript/issues/51

(I’m not disagreeing to remove it. It just took me a while to find out what happened to it)

[pier25]

Initially it didn't make sense to me... but it looks like type striping is really the way to go for future TS.

There's the "types as comments" proposal[1] which could even land on browsers one day.

I started using the erasableSyntaxOnly setting in my tsconfig to get ready for this.

[1] https://tc39.es/proposal-type-annotations/

[sexylinux]

At this point we should really prompt all the AI power in the world we have to create a TS replacement. It seems grotesque.

[pier25]

Something that uses WASM probably has more chances to succeed given the massive effort/investment in the past decade to shift from JS to TS.