A word about saving debugging time through statical typing: I come from java, and i can tell, that the strongly typed environment never reduced the debugging effort for me. 'use strict'-pragma, inclusive existence checking and unit-test save me from debugging not statical types. in comparison with java i save much development time with js.
plus: maintainability is a two headed beast, and it comes first through a clean code und documentation, it don't really matters which language it is. Typescript sounds more like a me2 to me, nothing more. i wonder if it will be there in 1-3 years or even leave the .net ecosystem. Am Montag, 1. Oktober 2012 22:50:01 UTC+2 schrieb Dick Hardt: > > > On Oct 1, 2012, at 1:40 PM, José F. Romaniello > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > 2012/10/1 Dick Hardt <[email protected] <javascript:>> > >> + Brings Visual Studio developers to node.js > > > > I was wondering about this... in the > video<http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript> > he > does a lot of emphasis in the code completion (intellisense). What is the > value of this outside Visual Studio? Why you will make your javascript > typed? just to compile it into something similar and get compiler errors? > > > Many code editors do code completion -- it is a great productivity tool > for developers ramping on using modules they are not intimately familiar > with. MS made the code available which makes it easier for other editors / > IDEs to do the same. > > For less sophisticated developers (most people, and most of the VS > market), the compiler errors will remove much debugging frustration and > allow them to focus on creating rather than debugging. > > Code completion was a HUGE feature for Perl and Python developers when I > built Komodo at ActiveState. > > -- Dick > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
