alt Hacker News> JSDoc and TypeScript are standards/formats for typing. Like any tools, they both have advantages and disadvantages. Neither is objectively better than the other.
Agreed. Just to clarify, my intentions with this post weren't to advocate for one over the other. Just to point out that they are the same thing. They are both TypeScript.
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KPGv2 • yesterday at 5:02 AM
> They are both TypeScript.
I take issue with this position because this seems to imply "PureScript and JavaScript are both JavaScript" is a true statement merely because one of them turns into the other with tooling.
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I don't know how anyone can agree with this, because it pivots on this outrageous claim:
"Like any tools, they both have advantages and disadvantages"
You cannot make any argument based on such a position. Putting aside anyone's views on TS or JSDoc, tooling is of extremely variable quality, and lots of tools ARE objectively much worse than other tools.
It we can't point at tools and say this one is better than that one, we might as well give up.
I always remember a scene in Will & Grace where Will is trying to get his boss to say one thing is better than the other. He's brought a lovingly hand-crafted sandwich made with amazing, bread, fillings, etc. and a store bought sandwich made with cheap bread/fillings. He asks his boss to try both and say which one he likes more.
His boss says something like the store bought one reminds him of his grandma's sandwiches, so invokes nostalgia, and still can't make a decision.
Don't be that boss.