TypeScript vs. JavaScript(hackernoon.com)
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TypeScript vs. JavaScript
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If you really, really want to write rock solid frontend code, then you use Elm. Elm is a language that compiles to javascript and probably is the most frustrating language there is for javascript developers. Strongly typed and pure functional means no variables - only a redux like common state, no functions with side-effects - so you can't just execute rest service calls without taking special care and run time type checking. Elm is a tough medicine, but it works. Your code becomes testable and reliant. And it makes TypeScript looks like a toy language.
That's cool but what is the ecosystem like? Real life projects need external libraries, e.g., social media login, amazon sdk, material design... all of which can be used easily from TypeScript.
I may well be wrong, but Elm strikes me as an academic exercise as of today.
I may well be wrong, but Elm strikes me as an academic exercise as of today.