proposal-type-annotations VS captureSystemAudio

After almost a decade of TypeScript my recommendation is to not use TypeScript enums.

Enums is going to make your TypeScript code not work in a future where TypeScript code can be run with Node.js or in browser when typings are added to JavaScript[1]

Enums results in runtime code and in most cases you really want type enums. Use `type State = "Active" | "Inactive"` and so on instead. And if you really want an closed-ended object use `const State = { Active: 1, Inactive: 0 } as const`

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

Maybe as part of the Flutter/Dart sales story?

Here is the current status of the standard proposal.

https://tc39.es/proposal-type-annotations/

So read the Github of TC39: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

Yes. That is noted in the PR:

> There is a TC39 proposal for type annotations

Which links to https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

It is a long ways off though.

IMO the game changer in your scenario is when type annotations are added as a standard JS feature:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

At that point you'd be able to run your TS code directly without any transpiration necessary. I'd love to remove all the build process junk from my projects and have them run quicker.

That proposal is not fully compatible with Typescript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations?tab=readme...

They held a meeting a few months ago so it's alive but probably still years away.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations/issues/184

I particularly like this thread in the TC39 types proposal. TypeScript IS a development trojan horse and locks you into the Microsoft Way of being a JS developer.

Edit: There is a proposal to extend JavaScript with type annotations, which would allow ("a reasonably large subset") of TypeScript to run directly in the browser. Yay!

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

Synchronous. Though non-blocking when we read the message from the browser, execute the command, then stream data output from the local application to the browser piped from QuickJS std.popen(), capture_system_audio.js

I've already achieved the requirement multiple ways, already; from using Native Messaging https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng, to using GNU Core Utilities tail, to Deno.watchFs() https://github.com/guest271314/fs, et al., see captureSystemAudio. The one approach I have not yet achieved is compiling to Emscripten - with SSML support.

Sure, see https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio/blob/master/native_messaging/capture_system_audio/background.js, in pertinent part

This is my second time writing C source code capture_system_audio.c. I got a lot of help doing that, too . I basically implemented the same Native Messaging host algorithm in C, C++, Python, WASI/WebAssembly, and JavaScript (Node.js, QuickJS) which is the programming language I write code most using.

I just fetch the nightly node executable, get rid of everything else in the archive, use .mjs extension for import to work without package.json, then I can connect to the host https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-nodejs, and start subprocesses, e.g., raw PCM streams, where stdout is streamed to the client (browser), e.g, https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio/blob/master/native_messaging/capture_system_audio/capture_system_audio_node.js.

Technically I can just serve the raw data as long as the server is capable of opening creating sub-processes, e.g., using EventSource https://plnkr.co/edit/qX5tepJ38BuDOSZj?preview, in which case I would just need to convert this https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio/blob/master/native_messaging/capture_system_audio/capture_system_audio.c to accept GET request, read the URL, and send the named event stream to the client.

Chromium and Chrome refuses to capture monitor devices on Linux. Read this https://github.com/edisionnano/Screenshare-with-audio-on-Discord-with-Linux README and the README at https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio very carefully. At best you can capture tab audio, not whatever is output to speakears and headphones, in spite of the systemAudio constraints, which is poorly named, and actually misleading.

How is capturing speechSynthesis.speak() a security vector https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio?

Capture audio output to speakers or headphones to MP3 or Opus in WebM https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio/tree/master/native_messaging/capture_system_audio

An example of using Native Messaging to capture "What-U-Hear", sound output to speakers and headphone, launching native GUI's https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio/tree/master/native_messaging/capture_system_audio; an adapter for espeak-ng so we can capture the output of speech synthesis engine and stream output to the browser https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng.