alt Hacker NewsFrom the link [3] you posted,
> If you're rabidly anti-TypeScript and think that us doing this vindicates your position, I'm about to disappoint you.
Rich and the rest of the Svelte team are still using typscript, just through JSDoc + type definition files.
In contrast the Nue team seems to want to keep the view layer untyped.
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> real static typing (like Rust or Go) shines in business logic where it counts
it seems they don't consider typescript to be "real" static typing.
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mplanchard • 04/01/2025
It’s not real static typing. A compiled typescript project is just javascript, which will still gladly accept incorrect types. The types only matter during compilation.
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TypeScript is not "real" static typing in the same sense as Go, Rust, C#; the type information disappears the moment you build it.
Will happily accept: At runtime (and thus the need for schema validators like Zod, Valibot, et al because dev-land "static typing" is a façade) To be clear, they are not "using" TypeScript, it's more accurate to say they are providing TypeScript bindings.Their codebase (as in the actual code they are writing) is undoubtedly JS[0] with `.d.ts` bindings for TypeScript[1]. Author can also do the same and provide TS bindings at any point in the future.
[0] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/blob/main/packages/svelte...
[1] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/blob/main/packages/svelte...