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c-hendricksyesterday at 9:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

Conversely, TypeScript is my favourite type system because it has to support the wild things people did in untyped languages.


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siwatanejotoday at 1:25 AM

Haha, it is actually my least favorite statically typed lang for this very reason.

throwaway81523yesterday at 9:57 PM

You didn't like Purescript? It looked pretty cool to me. Its main competition back in the day was Elm, but Typescript has now taken over. From a distance Typescript seems to have too many gaps. I haven't used it though.

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kahrlyesterday at 10:40 PM

Conversely, TypeScript was made from the get-go with types in mind. hurr durr.