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Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional? (feddit.dk)

submitted 7 months ago by SorteKanin@feddit.dk to c/programming@programming.dev

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I was talking to my manager the other day, discussing the languages we are using at $dayjob. He kind of offhandedly said that he thinks TypeScript is a temporary fad and soon everything will go back to using JavaScript. He doesn't like that it's made by Microsoft either.

I'm not a frontend developer so I don't really know, but my general impression is that everything is moving more and more towards TypeScript, not away from it. But maybe I'm wrong?

Does anyone who actually works with TypeScript have any impression about this?

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[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, so what you're describing is strong typing. I thought it was a unique feature of Ocaml. But in reality, any strong-typed language will have this as well.

And yeah, Typescript merely "suggests" typing, and it will allow you to build the project even if you ignore the type errors. A build system refusing to, well, build, if there are typing errors usually takes care of this, but again, the dev team may as well not implement this.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Any examples other than ocaml? From my understanding, ocaml's type strength may only be found in a couple other languages. Haskell, scala, and maybe Rust. Any others?

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I thought of Pascal, Java and C#, but pretty much any language listed here as "explicit / nominal / static" makes the cut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_by_type_system