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[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, Typescript just compiles down to JavaScript. I'm also generally anti a million frameworks, but JavaScript to TypeScript is easy

[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't it also like opt in? If you don't annotate a type it just defaults to Any, which is just unchecked like standard JS

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

As far as I know, it is. Type safety is optional but very useful sometimes