Having types always strike as a good idea to me, thanks for bringing this discussion!
Just to understand the ground better: typescript is made by microsoft and AFAIK there are other implementations like Flow <https://github.com/facebook/flow> from Facebook and AtScript from Google (part of Angular, superset of Typescript, brings annotations too) I wonder, should we also consider alignment with angular as an important point for whatever alternative we look at? On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Kevin (Sangwoo) Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello developers, > > I'd like to open a discussion on getting Typescript into zeppelin. > > http://www.typescriptlang.org/ > > Typescript brings type system onto javascript codes, which improves > productivity working with huge js codes. > > One of the really good point of Typescript is, 100% compatibility with > javascript, that is, > if we just change xxx.js into xxx.ts, it just works. > Then we can add some classes and type annotation gradually. > > Some frontend guys in our company already compared similar technology like > coffeescript and finally using Typescript and they are really satisfied. > > On the other hand, IDE support could be a limitation of Typescript. > IntelliJ ultimate edition ($199) or Visual Studio can be used to utilize > full editing feature of Typescript (auto completion, etc) > I can confirm syntax highlighting feature for Typescript works on Sublime > editor. > (Of course you can use any editor or IDE to edit ts, tough.) > > Any idea on this topic is welcomed! > > Regards, > Kevin >
