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gherkinnn on Jan 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is TypeScript worth it?

When you use TS purely for annotating strings and generic Record<string, any> types, sure. What's the point.

Why don't exhaustive matches, unions, and data modelling not get mentioned more often? That's where the true strength lies.

dmak on Jan 13, 2023 [–]

Those are the things I want to use TypeScript for, but it often requires me to adopt the whole ecosystem. I want a middle ground solution; I really just want JavaScript with some parts of TypeScript.

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