The TypeScript Tax

1 · Eric Elliott · Jan. 23, 2019, 4:24 a.m.
A Cost vs Benefit AnalysisPhoto: LendingMemo (CC BY 2.0)TypeScript grew a great deal between 2017 and 2019, and in many ways, for good reason. There’s a lot to love about TypeScript. In the 2018 State of JavaScript survey, almost half the respondents said they’d tried TypeScript and would use it again. But should you use it for your large scale app development project?This article takes a more critical, data-driven approach to analyze the ROI of using TypeScript to build large scale applications...