Typescript is a bad idea
- Eliot Muir
Typescript is a language that tries to bring type safety to Javascript.
Sorry dudes - if your code is so complicated that you need typesafety to solve the problem then you are solving the wrong problem.
Don’t get me wrong - I appreciate type-safety with C++ - it’s helpful in that environment. But not so much in the browser.
Your problem is why is your code so complicated you think you need this? See how to make a pink daiquiri.
The benefits one gets with typescript are more than lost with the fact that:
You lose the benefits of being able to understand your code within the browser, this is because:
typescript → compiler → javascript
So the javascript you see in your application at runtime has been generated.
Most of the code you are writing in Javascript is interacting with the APIs of the browser and guess what - this code isn’t written in typescript - it’s not typesafe.
The javascript console and debugger environment becomes far less useful. Just in the same way parsing through assembler generated from compiling your C code isn’t terribly helpful.
Tools which generate CSS are also a bad idea for the same reason.