Personally, I am a bit ambivalent towards Typescript.
On one hand I like the types system helping me during development; but on the other, like you, I like to use the language of the platform natively to prevent weirdness in machine-written code that is less understandable to a human reader. The IO mentions of using the platform rather than abstractions also points towards not using Typescript. Sent from [Nylas N1](https://nylas.com/n1?ref=n1), the extensible, open source mail client.  On May 24 2016, at 7:06 pm, [email protected] wrote: > I mean nothing against Typescript but after all the talk at I/O about sticking to standards and reducing the amount of necessary tooling, whoever thought this was a good idea? I understand that there are a lot of things that speak for Typescript in general but I haven't seen it used anywhere else in the Polymer ecosystem and I don't understand why the team chose to start using it now. I'm not going to list all the reasons why I think this is a bad idea - I think everybody in the team is aware of the drawbacks - but I'd love to hear the reasoning behind this. > > > > </rant> > > > > Sorry, but I just had to get this out of my system. Really love the work you're doing! Keep it up! > > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 \--- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [[email protected]](mailto:polymer- [email protected]). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid /polymer-dev/80b27bd8-d3ea-4de1-819c- 9f1825084f38%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer- dev/80b27bd8-d3ea-4de1-819c- 9f1825084f38%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). For more options, visit <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/82rafzmqajtm5etkxzvm9okdi-0%40mailer.nylas.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
