Survey for strong(er) typing

[aaronbartell]

In this Node.js User Feedback meeting we discussed doing a survey to ask the community whether they're interested in having a strong(er) data typing presence (i.e. Typescript) be built into Node.js.

This issue is to kick off the conversation amongst the Node.js User Feedback group.

It was mentioned by @mhdawson that a 1hr meeting could most likely give us enough time to flesh out the survey questions. I agree.

[styfle]

I really like TypeScript but I'm not sure how to integrate it properly besides using something like node-ts.

Is that what you are suggesting?

[aaronbartell]

Is that what you are suggesting?

@styfle,

Good question.

Part of the original conversation included pondering a survey option that asked whether we should promote this request all the way up to the Javascript specification so Node.js would inherently get it in the future.

Also in the original conversation it was mentioned that proposing types for Javascript has already happened and declined. I am not well versed in where to look for that conversation. I first went to Mozilla's ECMAScript reference page and that gave me Git repos for both ECMA-262 and ECMA-402.

Anyone know where else to look for the conversation where ECMAScript/Javascript types were declined?

[zuohuadong]

As a user, I would like to express my own views:
Our main motivation for using node.js comes from Nest.js, which is very friendly to typescript support.

The biggest obstacle to Typescript is V8, and I hope node.js can learn something from Dart.

[mhdawson]

@zuohuadong can you add more details on how V8 is the obstacle?

[zuohuadong]

@mhdawson

V8 is not Typecript's runtime.

1. Because the typescript needs to be compiled into JavaScript, it cannot achieve true AOP, and even typescript frameworks such as nest.js do not achieve true dependency injection (Ioc)。
2. We were unable to compile the typescript into binary . The Flutter eventually chose Dart.

At this stage, typescript can learn from Dart. If support for typescript is good enough, there will be a framework like spring.

[mhdawson]

@zuohuadong thanks for the additional info.