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pluma on July 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing TypeScript 1.5

So it brings nothing that babel+flow doesn't do already? The only advantage I seem to find is being backed by MS and blessed by Angular (i.e. Google). Sorry if I sound dismissive. I'm just trying to figure out why so many seem to find TS exciting outside the MS sphere.

Guillaume86 on July 20, 2015 | [–]

Flow is not available on windows, typescript is available on all major OSes.

nawitus on July 20, 2015 | [–]

TypeScript is probably more refined and has better tooling than Flow as it's a lot older. One could ask what Flow brings to the table.

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