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Survey for strong(er) typing #61
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In this Node.js User Feedback meeting we discussed doing a survey to ask the community whether they're interested in having a strong(er) data typing presence (i.e. Typescript) be built into Node.js.
This issue is to kick off the conversation amongst the Node.js User Feedback group.
It was mentioned by @mhdawson that a 1hr meeting could most likely give us enough time to flesh out the survey questions. I agree.
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styfle commentedon May 22, 2018
I really like TypeScript but I'm not sure how to integrate it properly besides using something like node-ts.
Is that what you are suggesting?
aaronbartell commentedon May 22, 2018
@styfle,
Good question.
Part of the original conversation included pondering a survey option that asked whether we should promote this request all the way up to the Javascript specification so Node.js would inherently get it in the future.
Also in the original conversation it was mentioned that proposing types for Javascript has already happened and declined. I am not well versed in where to look for that conversation. I first went to Mozilla's ECMAScript reference page and that gave me Git repos for both ECMA-262 and ECMA-402.
Anyone know where else to look for the conversation where ECMAScript/Javascript types were declined?
zuohuadong commentedon Nov 29, 2018
As a user, I would like to express my own views:
Our main motivation for using node.js comes from Nest.js, which is very friendly to typescript support.
The biggest obstacle to Typescript is V8, and I hope node.js can learn something from Dart.
mhdawson commentedon Nov 29, 2018
@zuohuadong can you add more details on how V8 is the obstacle?
zuohuadong commentedon Nov 29, 2018
@mhdawson
V8 is not Typecript's runtime.
At this stage, typescript can learn from Dart. If support for typescript is good enough, there will be a framework like spring.
mhdawson commentedon Nov 30, 2018
@zuohuadong thanks for the additional info.