proposal-types-as-comments VS Angular

As per the proposal:

Not runtime ones. https://github.com/giltayar/proposal-types-as-comments/issues/45

I do wonder about a future where JavaScript gets non-enforced optional type annotation syntax[1] which is and if said syntax will be slightly incompatible with TypeScript. That would be a little awkward for Deno, wouldn’t it. However I hope that if JS gets type annotation syntax that it would be a strict subset of TypeScript—or at the very least future compatible—for this very reason.

1. https://github.com/giltayar/proposal-types-as-comments

I assumed the joke was about this

It's actually Gil Taylor

The proposal on GitHub

/** * https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/75a186e321cb417685b2f13e9961906fc0aed36c/packages/core/src/render3/reactivity/untracked.ts#L15 * * packages/core/src/render3/reactivity/untracked.ts * **/ export function untracked(nonReactiveReadsFn: () => T): T { const prevConsumer = setActiveConsumer(null); try { return nonReactiveReadsFn(); } finally { setActiveConsumer(prevConsumer); } }

source: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/46542

Besides the dangers, mentioned by Angular docs (infinite loops, change detection errors), there is another thing, that might be quite nasty: effects are executed in a reactive context, and any code you call in effect, will be executed in a reactive context. If that code reads some signals, they will be added as dependencies to your effect. Here Alex Rickabaugh explains the details.

In June 2023, the Angular team raised a new RFC to implement control flow syntaxes within Angular. They gave the following rationale for introducing control flow syntax:

For scheduling, I use awesome code I found in the Angular source code.

Just to give you more context, I led the migration of several AngularJS applications to the newer Angular Framework. My client finally decided to make that move following the AngularJS deprecation announcement (stay up to date please 🙏)️.

Link — angular/CONTRIBUTING.md

Angular v17 was released some months ago with a ton of new features, a brand new logo and the new blog angular.dev.