Ashley Claymore
Ashley Claymore
Ashley is a software engineer at Bloomberg in the Trading Analytics team. He has been using TypeScript since v1.8 and contributed to the TypeScript implementation of the new 'Ergonomic brand checks for private fields' syntax. He is also a Bloomberg TC39 delegate currently working on the 'Change Array by copy' proposal.
TypeScript Congress 2022TypeScript Congress 2022
8 min
Alternatives to TypeScript
While TypeScript is currently the most popular static type checker for JavaScript, there are alternatives. In this talk, we'll look at Flow.js and Hegel, and review the similarities and differences among the three. Doing this will put TypeScript in perspective, and maybe help explain why the TS team made certain design decisions.