On: Leaving Google

[jefftk]

Note that things are a lot better now than they were in 2018, in large part due to his work and his team's. The typescript migration has gone well, with good automatic migration tooling, and I mostly only use TS now. This means good error messages, and good editor support.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)

[lolive → jefftk]

How did you do the work to type all your existing JS libs, so they have a clear TS contract?

[jefftk → lolive]

All of our existing JavaScript libraries were already typed, but with the awkward "types in comments" system: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Types-in-the...

Their team only (though it's a big "only") needed to do the work to make this existing type info available to TS

[lolive → jefftk]

I am rather new with JS, TS and all that. But did not IntelliJ have some JSDoc support to help it autocomplete JS, a long time ago?