Lundi 12 août 2024 à 11:09

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#JaiLu le thread Hacker News Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript.

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I highly recommend reading the PR discussion for this.

https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/971

Some summary:

forced through without any discussion

many maintainers raising questions, but no answers

random changes attached to the PR (formatters, etc)

Wherever you land on types, I think we can agree that this is not an ideal way to make a change to a larger open source project. This has all the hallmarks of an executive decision made on a whim, and forced through at the last minute. Lead maintainers certainly have the right to make big changes on a whim, but giving people some notice before breaking other projects and having good communication is true leadership.

After using TypeScript I could never go back. The amount of times it's saved me or got me up to speed quickly is countless. It does come with a cost and god the error messages are just awful sometimes but I'd die before I ever work in a js only project again.

I wonder if type annotations (JSDoc) on plain JS could be the way to go. Lint, but don’t compile. This should work seamlessly with NPM modules etc.