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TypeScript of course. The compiler often times catches mistakes in variable names, API methods, whatever. So it saves time by not having to run the whole application all the time. Also the input help is much better, when the editor knows sth is a string or a number, for example.
Oh yeah. Or when it’s a union of multiple strings or an enum and you get that sweet popup of all your options. So good 🥹
And being able to use more complex object types like discriminated unions without having to constantly look up what’s in them!
I’m idealistically/philosophically committed to a Purescript Halogen front end with a Haskell Servant backend, biatch. Maybe someday I’ll get WASM in there. One thing I will not do is use TS or JS.
I’d rather stay out of the frontend all together but I’d rather chop my balls off than go back to JS.
typescript is a bandaid on a severed leg
I like TypeScript for its types and type-checking, but I also want to write JavaScript to avoid having a local build step, and having to wait for things to transpile/compile/etc when running locally. I have a pretty large project where I’ve gotten both worlds by just using JSDoc and only using TS for type-checking. VSCode still offers built-in type-checking with JSDocs and ofc the type-checking can also be run separately if needed.
Typescript may have a million problems that make getting into it annoyingly hard and even seem pointless, but once it’s settled in your project and used well… Damn is it fucking good.
And I’m saying that even though I had to disable intellisense and most of those advanced features because the project I work for is too large and typescript would easily use over 20GB of RAM and get my computer to freeze.
But if you’re trying to use it like a traditional typed language, you’ll only see the bad side of it and you’ll certainly hate it.
vanilla javascript? what are you, fucking Amish?
I’m choosing the third side: WebAssembly
Blazingly fast 🦀🦀🦀
You can even compile Fortran code to wasm and run it on a web browser. Who need Javascript’s puny 64bit floating point precision when you can have Fortran’s superior 128bit floating point precision?
I’ll be downvoted again but I agree.
I think there’s a positive coming from this competition, though. Apparently this infighting has re-lit the want for type annotations to be embedded in vanilla JS (ECMAScript proposal). I feel like this would be the ideal scenario: things working right out of the box without needing a compile step or additional tooling.
You can get as close as it gets to this experience by using alternative runtimes such as Deno or Bun, which have native TS support (meaning you can just execute a .ts file without having to transpile it), but of course as soon as you have to write code for a browser you are back in the middle ages.
