On 31.12.23 16:21, Agile Developer wrote:
Thank you very much Jochen for the answer. I agree that Typescript can be misused, but do you prefer a 10K LOC in Javascript or Typescript?
Does really not matter much.
What is more maintainable given best practices are respected in each language? Personally I would get up to speed faster in Typescript even If the developer was not 100% conforming to types.
If it is good code and best practices are respected then I have documentation able to explain everything I need to know and tests showing me usage and possibilities. It then does not matter if I have additionally types or not.
I see your point that @compilestatic groovy vs "free range" groovy resembles the typescript vs javascript situation, still I do not find it ideal to have 2 languages in terms of maintenance effort.
why two languages? Because the semantics for method dispatch differ slightly? @CompileStatic is only a AST-transform, any AST-transform can alter the semantics. bye Jochen
