• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Genuine question: is it really a superset if it’s not still valid javascript? Isn’t it more of an abstraction layer on top of javascript?

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      3 hours ago

      In practice people don’t use Typescript as a superset since they have stricter compiler settings, which would make valid JavaScript fail to compile.

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      5 hours ago

      Superset means all valid JavaScript is also valid Typescript. (At least, so long as you don’t have compiler setting on that requires all variables to have a type declared.)