JavaScript Type Syntax Proposal Overview - Bringing TypeScript Types to JavaScript, Good or Bad?

Explore the proposed integration of TypeScript types into the ECMAScript standard in this comprehensive video. Delve into the potential impact of static typing on JavaScript, examining its benefits and drawbacks. Learn about TypeScript types through a brief tutorial and understand how TypeScript files are converted to JavaScript. Compare the proposed JavaScript types with JSDoc comments and analyze the feasibility of eliminating build steps in the near future. Investigate browser version statistics worldwide, with a focus on African markets, to assess the practicality of implementing this proposal. Evaluate the current state of transpilation to CommonJS and weigh the pros and cons of bringing TypeScript types to JavaScript.

- introduction
- type syntax proposal overview
- typescript types vs JavaScript
- optional types
- types as comments
- JSDoc comments
- JavaScript State of JS
- Evergreen browsers
- Browser Version Statistics
- African browser version stats
- We're still transpiling to commonjs today
- Pros and Cons