Lying to TypeScript for Fun and Profit

I’ve been writing a lot more TypeScript recently and have been pleasantly surprised. It mostly negates the downsides of JavaScript and creates a fairly pleasant programming environment.One interesting thing about TypeScript is that it feels that there is a weaker bond between the compile-time types and run-time types than in most other programming languages. For example TypeScript considers the following code perfectly legitimate.let data = JSON.parse("{}"); data.achieveWorldPeace(); This is bec...

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