It’s about time JS gave us the ability to be strict on types, and have that as part of the interpreter as opposed to needing to transpile TS with the overhead involved
I’m not sure this proposal can replace Typescript. It doesn’t support any of the more powerful Typescript features as far as I can tell. Basic types in Javascript are a great step forward, but I don’t expect them to be very popular if they can’t describe things like partial JSON objects for working with APIs.
Out of all the transpiler steps in “modern” JS, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Typescript suck up all that much performance. Splitting code into streaming files, doing whatever dark magic makes modern JS compatible with IE 9 for some reason, and setting up hot reloads used to be the heaviest part of my workflow. Working with Typescript sucked up a lot of RAM in my IDE, but that as mostly because the types I was working with were created in Javascript that read like code golfing sometimes, generating three or four types for every possible API call.
And thankfully we might be getting to a point where TS no longer needs to exist: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
It’s about time JS gave us the ability to be strict on types, and have that as part of the interpreter as opposed to needing to transpile TS with the overhead involved
I’m not sure this proposal can replace Typescript. It doesn’t support any of the more powerful Typescript features as far as I can tell. Basic types in Javascript are a great step forward, but I don’t expect them to be very popular if they can’t describe things like partial JSON objects for working with APIs.
Out of all the transpiler steps in “modern” JS, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Typescript suck up all that much performance. Splitting code into streaming files, doing whatever dark magic makes modern JS compatible with IE 9 for some reason, and setting up hot reloads used to be the heaviest part of my workflow. Working with Typescript sucked up a lot of RAM in my IDE, but that as mostly because the types I was working with were created in Javascript that read like code golfing sometimes, generating three or four types for every possible API call.