nippur72

yes it's a rabbit hole, I know it well! When PC became fast enough to be used as DSP engines with the soundcard I spent years playing with the creation of "digital modes" as HAM radio hobbyist.

nippur72

5 anni fadiscuss

down it Italy as well

nippur72

8 anni fadiscuss

> Programmers with lots of hours of maintaining code eventually evolve to return early

indeed I've evolved it myself but always wondering if it was the right thing to do. Now I even have a name for it.

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

https://github.com/evanw/thinscript

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

I've written a large .NET SPA application and I feel very comfortable with the following technologies:

On the client: - TypeScript as language (v2.1 for ES5 async/await), strict null checks enabled - VS2015CE or VSCODE as IDE - React for rendering the UI - React-Templates for compiling HTML templates into pure React - React-router for routing - Webpack as module bundler, compiles in background (-w switch)

On the server: - IIS/.NET, limited only to serving the main .html page and to reply REST api (C#). - SQL Server as database engine

Everything is fine and debugging is smooth from Visual Studio. The only impedance mismatch is between server language (C#) and client (TypeScript). I once tried to switch to node.js but the SQL Server support was poor.

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

before typescript@next I had exactlt that setup, but sourcemaps were broken despite all my attempts to make them work. Now I'm using ts 2.1 and have completely removed babel out of my build.

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

nice small lib as you'd expect from @gianlucaguarini (of Riot.js fame).

Also, it's async/await ready:

  const allora = require('allora')
  const myGlobal = allora(global)
  
  async function foo() {
     console.log("start")
     await myGlobal.setTimeout(2000)
     console.log("end")
  }  

  foo()

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

thanks it's very useful, as I now I doubt async/await will ever land in TS.

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

is this server protocol also responsible for syntax highlight (aka colorization) of the source code?

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

fine, thanks. TypeScript makes it even more interesting. I am going to make some tests to see if Inferno can replace React when working with react-templates.

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

I've just opened the GitHub repo and I see no trace of TypeScript, no .ts files anywhere

nippur72

10 anni fadiscuss

yeah, I still have it installed on my phone, it was a great tool, I can't believe MS abandoned it and now it's reinventing a less cool version of it :-(

nippur72

11 anni fadiscuss

I think VS 2015 (released today) should handle tsconfig in the IDE.

nippur72

11 anni fadiscuss

async/await will a sort of revolution, I hope they put out the 1.6 beta real soon

nippur72

11 anni fadiscuss

the new version handles tsconfig.json, so no more need for ///<reference>

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