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TypeScript Won. Now It’s Giving Up Its Superpowers.
When you spin up a greenfield project on a Tuesday afternoon, a build step feels like a completely reasonable trade-off. You install a bundler, configure a transpiler, sprinkle in a few TypeScript-specific conveniences, and marvel at the developer ergonomics. Having the compiler quietly invent runtime JavaScript out of thin air to support an enum, a…
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The Superset Trap: Why Node’s Native TypeScript is Going to Break Enterprise Brains
If you spend your time in open-source mailing lists or arguing about AST transformations on social media, the recent push toward “erasable syntax” makes total sense. I’ve been a proponent of TypeScript for a long time. In the early days, whenever someone brought up enum, for example, I remember having conversations along the lines of:…