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Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by shearnie »

jzelinskie wrote: post #3

I haven't heard much about TypeScript since its original announce. Are any big projects using it? Does anybody have some commentary on their experience using it and where they think the project is going?

My project isn't huge, but larger than it could have been using idiomatic javascript.

The scoping with modules and the typing really helped since I'm familiar with C# and having "everything light up" in the IDE. Saved a ton of time letting a compiler catch things instead of writing tests.

I tried coffee script, but found the copy/paste option for javascript that I have already written won me over.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by aquark »

shearnie wrote: post #5
jzelinskie wrote: post #3

I haven't heard much about TypeScript since its original announce. Are any big projects using it? Does anybody have some commentary on their experience using it and where they think the project is going?

My project isn't huge, but larger than it could have been using idiomatic javascript. The scoping with modules and the typing really helped since I'm familiar with C# and having "everything light up" in the IDE. Saved a ton of time letting a compiler catch things instead of writing tests. I tried coffee script, but found the copy/paste option for javascript that I have already written won me over.

Same here -- I rewrote all my javascript code in Typescript and am very happy with the result.

No longer am I concerned about errant semi-colons or a stupid typo in a method name on an error handling path that a unit test missed.

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by kyrra »

benatkin wrote: post #6
opminion wrote: post #2

I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.

Why are you concerned about this? I didn't see anything in the announcement that would suggest it.

Cause it makes it windows only.

EDIT: to add, I like the idea of typescript (it's a much smaller step than compared to something like Dart). But their tooling is all around Visual Studio, which ties you to Windows. I don't dislike Windows, but I want my development tools to be cross platform (which is why I like Sublime Text, Eclipse, and similar tools).

Re: Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1

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Post by de90 »

shearnie wrote: post #5
jzelinskie wrote: post #3

I haven't heard much about TypeScript since its original announce. Are any big projects using it? Does anybody have some commentary on their experience using it and where they think the project is going?

My project isn't huge, but larger than it could have been using idiomatic javascript. The scoping with modules and the typing really helped since I'm familiar with C# and having "everything light up" in the IDE. Saved a ton of time letting a compiler catch things instead of writing tests. I tried coffee script, but found the copy/paste option for javascript that I have already written won me over.

Exactly my feelings about it. Being able to specify types, and having the compiler warn me of mistakes is a godsend when comparing it to just writing javascript.

And when valid javascript is valid typescript, it seems odd to not opt to use it when the only addition is a compile step to ensure sanity.

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