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TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
105,096 stacks503 votes74,155 followers
Why developers like TypeScript:
- ✓More intuitive and type safe javascript(173)
- ✓Type safe(105)
- ✓JavaScript superset(80)
It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.
3,729 stacks1,025 votes1,180 followers
Why developers like CoffeeScript:
- ✓Easy to read(199)
- ✓Faster to write(179)
- ✓Syntactic sugar(126)
Flow is a static type checker for Javascript created by Facebook.
145 stacks0 votes75 followers
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It is 100% compatible with Ruby. It type checks normal method definitions, and introduces backwards-compatible syntax for method signatures. Explicit method signatures make it useful for anyone reading the code. Type annotations serve as a tool for understanding long after they're written.
11 stacks0 votes7 followers
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