| ▲ | unchar1 3 days ago | |
> To be clear, they are not "using" TypeScript, it's more accurate to say they are providing TypeScript bindings. Interesting that you say it's more about providing "bindings", and not really "using". Much of the types in the svelte codebase are never exported outside of svelte, and they are only consumed internally. The problem they were having was with transpilation, since the browser doesn't run JS. From Rich Harris (months after svelte switched to JSDoc) [1]: > removing types from your own code is clownish, epically misguided behaviour, but whatever — to each their own I would suggest going through the issues and PRs in the codebase to see how invested the Svelte team is in typescript. > TypeScript is not "real" static typing in the same sense as Go, Rust, C#. That is true for Go, Rust, C#. But the same thing is also true for languages like C, and Generics in Java. I'm sure both of those languages have weak type systems, but are definitely statically typed. I think the fact that type information is lost after being compiled isn't really a classifier for typed/non-typed. Ultimately it all comes down to machine code, and that certainly isn't typed either. | ||