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[–] andreax@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No, it is slower than JS but it can be compiled to JS. The point of typescript is bringing static (or generally talking, predictable) types to variables, so that treating erroneously a number as a string should be more difficult. In a large codebase, it's easy to make mistakes and debugging is not instantaneous but it needs time. Typescript helps here. You write more code but it helps you out later

[–] mea_rah@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I don't have much experience with TS, but in other strongly typed language it goes even further than string vs number.

For example you can have two numbers Distance and TimeInSeconds and even though they are both numbers, the type system can make sure that you won't do distance+time.

It can also let you do distance/time and return Speed type.

It will prevent many logical errors even though everything is technically a number.

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TS syntax is still the most cursed thing I've ever seen

[–] stinodes@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then it just sounds like you've not written any typed languages yet

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I have some knowledge on C# and I've used C++ before... I really like C# (Ik it's not technically fully statically typed but it gets the point across), ASP.net just has too many hoops to jump through just to get a project started, it's kinda annoying.