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I've got 99 problems but the tersity in TypeScript isn't one of them. Can't wait to groan that a random project we depend on uses this and I have to learn new syntax to make a 1 line change.

Whenever I saw coffeescript I just felt like the developers fancied a change for change sake and doesn't have real problems to solve.

It's clever though to create a new syntax, I'll give you that




I like the documentation that TypeScript types provide but I'm always running into lots of small quality of life issues that wear me down.

- Rest in any position

- Dedented block strings

- Default to const in for loops

- Lack of -> function shortand

- Everything is an expression

- Implicit returns

- Chained comparisons

- Nested unbraced object literals

- Optional trailing commas in arrays

- Optional trailing commas in objects

- x.map .name function shorthand

Each one is a fairly minor concern but they all add up. I'm sure different people will have a different list of favorite features as well. One of my goals in creating Civet was to fix my top 100 issues with TS syntax while being 99% backward compatible. The ultimate goal being: TS with my top 100 issues fixed will be the best language I have ever used.




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