In the case of Google I think this was an honest to God look at the tech and the decision that it was better than Dart (Google's own version). I have to say it is a very impressive language, because it accommodates both strong and weak typing. So you can do things like import jQuery and get code completion, but not error checking, whereas the rest of your code could be strongly typed.
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Thierry Nivelet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Good news, if Googles enters the dance, Typescript is on good tracks to > become a standard; good job Microsoft, there must have been a lot of > negotiations behind the scene. > > However, I saw quite a bunch of open source projects in the JavaScript > world that were frozen because the author no longer seemed to pay any > interest in the pull requests and to improving the project; eg. jQueryUI > and jQuery mobile no longer evolves since the main contributors have > withdrawn. > > Ultimately I mean that open source is only a way for a project to live, > under the vital condition that a group of leaders are motivated (and paid) > to dedicate enough time to it. > > Thierry Nivelet > FoxInCloud > Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud > http://foxincloud.com/ > > Le 09/10/2017 à 12:57, Paul Hemans a écrit : > >> Hi Thierry, >> I think you are looking at Typescript from the perspective of the VFP >> community which is now quite small, and for us to support it would be a >> huge challenge. However, if MS abandoned Typescript, it would be no >> problem >> because Typescript is now an official language at Google. >> >> Speaking of transpilers and so forth, as far as language translations go, >> VFP is a challenge because it is ambiguous so it defies parsers. Though >> recently by chance I was working on a project to do with chatbots. I was >> intrigued because human language is ambiguous, and the chatbot parser did >> surprisingly well. The chatbot parser (a Typescript engine) could do VFP >> parsing. However, it is irrelevant because I could never find the time or >> the funding for a project like that. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Thierry Nivelet <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Le 07/10/2017 à 22:29, Paul Hemans a écrit : >>> >>> But even if they decided to stop it someone could pick up the code and go >>>> on. With VFP we were simply stuffed. 'Open source' means the source is >>>> available. >>>> >>>> Well, theorically true, very difficult practically. >>> >>> As I mentioned earlier, all major contributors are Microsoft employees or >>> close to, and have been working on that project for years, probably full >>> time if you take a close look at the contribution graphs. >>> >>> Language translaters are a difficult matter that require a strong >>> academic >>> background and daily involvement in the project. >>> >>> That's why I can't see how 'simple' users could take over the project if >>> Microsoft decided to withdraw. >>> >>> If you fork the project, your contribution can go into the mainstream >>> releases ONLY if you issue a 'pull request' and if the project manager(s) >>> accept it and merge it into the main branch. If Microsoft removes >>> resource >>> from this project without transferring the lead to someone else, and if >>> no >>> one's forked branch really becomes a leader, there is no real way to >>> gather >>> contributions into a fruitful manner. >>> >>> You could theoretically imagine to make your fork become a TypeScriptBis >>> with its own release cycle and register it into bower, chocolatey, grunt >>> and the like, however that looks like a ScFi scenario IMO. >>> >>> Thierry Nivelet >>> FoxInCloud >>> Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud >>> http://foxincloud.com/ >>> >>> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAKT3oPdcno7M=oigorugwfgcetnaodzb_0sac5xenkrwowb...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
