How is the adoption of TypeScript outside of MS?
I have been a backend developer most of my life. Last year I tried learning front end and I threw up on the sight of JavaScript code .... This year I tried again with TypeScript + React and the result was much better and I liked developing a UI for the first time. My question is that has TS found any adoption? Given that almost all programming languages offer Compilation directly to JavaScript these days. I know MS may be using it big time but they have a tendency to use their own tech no matter how bad it is (like Silverlight)
I don’t trust SO surveys much because that’s the opinion of people just trying to learn trendy stuff. I am more interested in adoption by large companies. So for example does Spotify use TS?
Spotify has too much tech debt preventing it from using nice things.
FWIW, AppDynamics UI is written in Typescript.
We use TS React
We use typescript in some of our codebase
TS is pretty well respected a lot of places. It’s used in some of Amazon. Another MS product I’ve seen get traction in the non-MS community is VS Code.
VS code is written in TS
Google used TypeScript for Angular 2, so TypeScript is commonly used by companies using Angular. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2015/03/05/angular-2-built-on-typescript/
Ember.js has been adopting TypeScript. https://medium.com/@tomdale/glimmer-js-whats-the-deal-with-typescript-f666d1a3aad0
TypeScript ranked highly in this year’s Stack Overflow survey. https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2018