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Good presentation. But two caveats:

First, the slides about lack of non-nullable types in TypeScript are incorrect, if you count the beta ("next") versions. It's already part of 2.0 [1] which should be out soon [2]. He says "there is hope" but it's more than hope, it's a certainty. (the date of the presentation is not clear, but seems outdated to me)

Second, there's a lot of other features that are left out. Union types, flexible interfaces, etc. They're not on par between the two languages, but many of those are almost as helpful as types, just more specific, so they're important if one is trying to draw a comparison.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Roadmap#20

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/milestones




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