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Glimmer.js: What’s the Deal with TypeScript? (medium.com/tomdale)
11 points by chancancode on April 11, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Tom Dale does a good job explaining how judicious use of TypeScript may prevent the CoffeeScript problem: a language that slowly diverges from JavaScript because of all the syntactic features it introduces before they end up in JavaScript as well — with a subtly different syntax.

I wonder if there is a change of TypeScript becoming a full-fledged part of the ECMAScript standard?




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