Ten Years of TypeScript

• TypeScript

  1,367 100,571 9.9 TypeScript

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

  

  > But they admitted namespaces, enums

  And decorators. But this was very early on and they won’t ever do it again unless there’s a drastic change on principle and probably a reorg of global proportion. They categorically reject anything with runtime implications now, and to the point of decorators are actively working to align them with the standard as it’s approaching stability.

  > and interfaces into the language (the latter becoming more and more confusing as type aliases got more expressive) […] Is "as", "is", or "satisfies" expression-level?

  No. All of this is completely separate from the runtime and on a standards course to be treated effectively as comments.

  > But the enums!

  I’m one of the minority who actually likes TS enums, but I strongly suspect they’ll be deprecated, alongside namespaces, as soon as there’s general consensus around types as comments. The TypeScript team considers these mistakes and would very much like to be able to drop them. I’d welcome that too even though I quite like enums.

  The fact is TS has considerable backwards compatibility expectations, and aligning their mistakes with their goals is great on principle but something which would require thousands upon thousands of hours of labor for people to accommodate.

  You can snipe all you want, but if you think it’s that easy to resolve maybe I can direct you to https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pulls

  I’m not affiliated with the team in any way but I’m almost totally certain they’d welcome a contribution that gets them closer to their stated principles where historical designs are entrenched, without breaking workflows for thousands of people and interrupting releases for millions.

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• rescript-compiler

  99 6,672 9.8 ReScript

  The compiler for ReScript.

  

  Also see https://rescript-lang.org/ if you're considering learning Typescript

  Looking forward to more great ideas in the future of ways to 'fix' Javascript.

• proposal-pattern-matching

  68 5,475 8.2 HTML

  Pattern matching syntax for ECMAScript

  

  Pattern matching is actually being discussed in tc39 for JS as a whole (where TS reps are some of the champions, ofc): https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching

  The specifics of the proposal will likely shift a bit since it's still stage 1 (2?).

• Civet

  25 1,356 9.9 TypeScript

  A TypeScript superset that favors more types and less typing

  

• TypeScript-wiki

  6 692 6.9 JavaScript

  A repository to make changes to the TypeScript Wiki on GitHub

  

  When you can write a busy beaver machine in the type system, LOC ceases to be a good indicator or how long something should take to typecheck, imo. If you're frustrated with your build, you should use the trace tools on the TS wiki[1] to track down what types are slow to check, so you can attribute the slowness to the appropriate library authors/yourself and decide for yourself if the speed/correctness tradeoff they've made is right for you.

  [1]https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-wiki/blob/main/Perfo...

• MIRAI

  9 1,002 6.1 Rust

  Discontinued Rust mid-level IR Abstract Interpreter

  

• hacl-star

  10 1,623 9.6 F*

  HACL*, a formally verified cryptographic library written in F*

  

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