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		whstl on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing JavaScript without a build system I wonder how far fetched it would be to have just the syntax of Typescript on the browser without type-checking. We'd have to use tsc locally only for the typechecking, without the need of a build process, but that would be enough for me. I know there's JSDoc but the normal syntax is so much better. EDIT: Looks like there's a proposal: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

mLuby on Feb 16, 2023 [–]

IIRC that's how the Flow type annotations worked, but of course it lost out to TypeScript.

whstl on Feb 18, 2023 | [–]

Correct, but to be more precise, both Typescript and Flow allow for both JSDoc and the more common TS-like syntax.

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