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by shubhamjain 4122 days ago
If type safety was the issue, couldn't they have tried Facebook's Flow[1] which believe would have reduced the technical overhead by large?

[1]: http://flowtype.org/
2 comments
Bahamut 4122 days ago
TypeScript has been around longer, and is more widely used.

FWIW, the Angular team mentioned they talked with the Flow team - not sure what that will mean in the near term, but I get the impression that efforts might be in progress to unify the different libraries' efforts.

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ahoge 4122 days ago
Flow doesn't work on Windows yet. Atom seems to be the only editor which supports it. That plugin had its 2nd release just 3 days ago.
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zghst 4122 days ago
If I can get Flow to work in vim, I am sure it works in more than just Atom
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ahoge 4122 days ago
Define "get to work".

I mean something like this: https://atom.io/packages/ide-flow

Tool-tips, call-tips, auto-complete, type checking, and so forth. The kind of stuff you get with TypeScript or Dart.

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