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Rich Harris
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Interviewed: Rich Harris
are you excited about the type annotations proposal is that something you've looked at oh yes extremely yeah so I I don't know how how many people are aware of this I think it's absolutely huge and I really hope it comes to pass essentially the idea is that you can write typescript syntax or something very close to typescript syntax inside JavaScript and the JavaScript engine essentially just treats it as an inline comment and ignores it and the idea is that in theory you can express any type system in there in practice it will be typescript and so you can have type check JavaScript
without any transpilation whatsoever and it will just put this whole argument about should you use dots or should you use JS withjs do to bed once and for all and I for one could not be more excited