Q&A : why use js over ts?

[laciferin2024]

Typescript is typesafe and offers better development experience

[jelveh]

offers better development experience

That's subjective

[laciferin2024]

I was expecting more of a concrete reason not a debate. Why avoid type safe?

[jelveh]

I didn't mean to be sarcastic. I actually meant that the statement "offers better development experience" is subjective.

One main reason to not use TS is because it adds build overhead. Also, the number of developers that know JS is more than TS; we'd like Puter to be accessible to as many developers as possible. Type safety is not valuable enough for us to justify limiting the contributor pool.

[laciferin2024]

I would like to know more of the build overhead as the typescript has more reliable opensource contributors , (IMO)

[jelveh]

I would like to know more of the build overhead

ts needs to be transpiled to js.

typescript has more reliable opensource contributors , (IMO)

this is anecdotal