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I've been thinking a bit about TypeScript as of late, primarily motivated by TypeScript's Isolated Declarations feature. Mainly I've been thinking about what a new and fresh variant of typed JavaScript could look like.
I've mostly narrowed it down to the following feature set that I'm tentatively calling TSLite (kinda like SQLite to SQL), to note though - this is only just a concept at this point in time, I haven't built anything formal for this idea but I might consider leveraging AI to help me build some kind of type checking tool possibly!
Features (or lack of features):
namespace's, enum's, and other TS flavored features (like TypeScript decorators)
any type, instead prefer unknownI think with these constraints you could design a fairly minimal type checking system that could be as efficient (maybe more efficient) than TypeScript is today.
I think the strict "no inference" rule is probably the most constraining for most developers though, type inference is a really nice feature of TypeScript but it leads to a decent amount of ambiguity.
👆Back to reference While I'm not too optimistic in a new typed JavaScript language taking off and gaining as much popularity as either Flow type of TypeScript - it's still an interesting thought exercise.
Matt Hamlin
@matthamlin.me
A proposal for a minimal variant of TypeScript!
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