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		ericelliott on Jan 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The TypeScript Tax Some good reasons for that: 1. I get type feedback in my browser with inference. 2. I get near real-time feedback from TDD on file save. 3. I get real-time lint feedback, too. The net result is I get several multiples better bug coverage than TypeScript alone can provide at about the same speed -- while writing idiomatic JS.

ng12 on Jan 26, 2019 [–]

> TypeScript alone can provide at about the same speed

If writing your unit tests contributes less overhead than writing TypeScript types you're doing something horribly wrong.

ericelliott on Jan 26, 2019 | [–]

It's not less overhead, but you can't skip TDD with TypeScript because at least 80% of bugs are not detectable by TypeScript.

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