TypeScript is 'not worth it' for developing libraries, says Svelte author, as team switches to JavaScript and JSDoc

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  • There may be some confusion, I don't know what nix is, the thing I mean is NX ( https://nx.dev ).

  • nix

    Nix, the purely functional package manager

  • Oh, oh, this is another JS world build system, I thought that you guys are using https://nixos.org/ (The packager manager things).

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • zod

    TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

  • TypeScript doesn't perform runtime type checking, for that you'd want to use something like zod

  • proposal-type-annotations

    ECMAScript proposal for type syntax that is erased - Stage 1

  • TypeScript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  • Does seems kind of weird though. What's the benefit to this over Typescript? Especially when some cases don't have nice solutions: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/20077

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