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TIL about the greek question mark

Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?

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[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll add that to my mountain of reasons for using typescript

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yup! I love TypeScript, and I love the flexibility of JavaScript. With all of the type templates and generics and other black magic TypeScript has, it's pretty easy to even support the crazy stuff like mixins and contextual parameters (if I'm not speaking too loosely while avoiding proper terms!).

A lot of the crazy stuff won't optimize, but at least it goes to show how it's not really tying JavaScript's hands even when requiring TS everywhere.