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?

  • eratic@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Is it? I just have it auto-generate in my IDE with snippets. If I was using TS I would still document using TSDoc anyway. You can use jsconfig.json instead.

    • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      If I was using TS I would still document using TSDoc anyway.

      Yeah but you wouldn’t put the types there. Putting types in JSDoc is awkward.

      You can use jsconfig.json instead.

      Unfortunately not. I even went as far as reading the source code for VSCode. There’s no way to e.g. set noUncheckedIndexedAccess.