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@homoludens I don‘t think is a good idea. Every TypeScript developer ought know deeply JavaScript. For example, if you work with Django you ought programming with Python.
Yes, that I need to learn some amount of Javascript is a given. But I would rather not learn some JS aspects that I won't need anyway, because TS prevents me from using them or has other best practices.
Typescript doesn't really remove anything you learn in JavaScript. Like at all. It's not really a library as such. It adds ways to enhance your JavaScript, with typing, structure, and tooling
Learn JavaScript as much as possible. Every bit you learn will benefit you with typescript
I know TS doesn't remove that much from JS, but I expect the typing, structuring etc. to prevent some behavior that can occur in JS - otherwise what would be the point of e.g. the typing system? So that are the parts I don't need to learn (at least not at first).
I think an important point for me is that I'd rather learn "from a TS perspective", that is starting with best practices and common use cases as they appear in a TS environment. Right now it sounds to me that the usual way would be to read some JS book, where I learn e.g. about functions or objects. And then I would read another book with all the modifications that TS makes to e.g. functions or objects.
Its important to understand that:
When you are writing typescript, you are writing JavaScript but have additional syntax to help support type safety and structure. If you are creating a function that does x, it should very much be the same in JS and TS, just in TS it has extra syntax
TS doesn't modify the way JS works, its one of the stated needs for the tooling.
In TS, for example, I can denote an object as
In JS it would be
It's still nothing but an object. TS doesn't change the functionality, it just adds typing and checks that you are using that object properly as static build step.
What's the point of type hinting in Python?
@homoludens Can you give me some example?
Please see my other replies.