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jillesvangurp on Dec 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: State of JavaScript 2019

For developers coming from other languages, typescript and the tool support in VS Code is what makes frontend engineering tolerable these days. A big difference with just a few years ago. I insist on it in most projects I'm responsible for. I see no good technical reasons not to use it at this point.

Aeolun on Dec 19, 2019 [–]

I mean, if you really want to, you can configure it to be just JS with .ts file extensions :P

jillesvangurp on Dec 19, 2019 | [–]

Well, strict mode is a thing of course. But yes definitely have seen a bit too much code with the any type.

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