How do you feel about TypeScript? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Specifically, do you worry that Microsoft is going to eventually do the Microsoft thing and horribly fuck it up for everyone? I've really grown to appreciate the language itself, but I'm wary of it getting too ingrained at work only to have the rug pulled out from under us when it's become hard to back out.

Edit: not really "pulling the rug", but, you know, doing the Microsoft classic.

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[-] lysdexic@programming.dev -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Specifically, do you worry that Microsoft is going to eventually do the Microsoft thing and horribly fuck it up for everyone?

I'm not sure you are aware, but Microsoft created TypeScript.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-1-0/

Without Microsoft, TypeScript would not exist.

[-] Badland9085@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I think you’re missing the point. It’s exactly cause Microsoft created it that people get worried about it. The EEE is an actual phrase found to be used internally in Microsoft, albeit being some time ago. Though there’s no knowing whether it’s still circulating now, it’s hard to trust them to be good stewards forever.

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