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Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional? (feddit.dk)
submitted 8 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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[โ€“] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hi, I've been doing TypeScript in my day-job and hobbies for six and a bit years now. I would not write JS in any other way.

TS is also a superset of JS so all JS is valid (unless you turn on strict mode). So there is no productivity loss/learning curve unless you want there to be.

In fact, a lot of people who think they're not using typescript are using it because their editors use typescript definitions for autocomplete and JSDoc type signatures are powered by typescript.

[โ€“] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

So there is no productivity loss/learning curve unless you want there to be.

It's not significant but an extra build step can be annoying