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minus-squarehumorlessrepost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoGenuine question: is it really a superset if it’s not still valid javascript? Isn’t it more of an abstraction layer on top of javascript?
minus-squareCookieOfFortune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoIn practice people don’t use Typescript as a superset since they have stricter compiler settings, which would make valid JavaScript fail to compile.
minus-squaremercano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoSuperset means all valid JavaScript is also valid Typescript. (At least, so long as you don’t have compiler setting on that requires all variables to have a type declared.)
Genuine question: is it really a superset if it’s not still valid javascript? Isn’t it more of an abstraction layer on top of javascript?
In practice people don’t use Typescript as a superset since they have stricter compiler settings, which would make valid JavaScript fail to compile.
Superset means all valid JavaScript is also valid Typescript. (At least, so long as you don’t have compiler setting on that requires all variables to have a type declared.)