Hacker News: MiTypeScript

New comment by MiTypeScript in "TypeScript 7"

MiTypeScript — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:20:03 +0000

fair, but, at the same time.. you may not think too much about it, but your editor is running the TypeScript language server all day long. presumably, so does your CI. presumably, so does your AI agent before feeling good about what it just did.

New comment by MiTypeScript in "TypeScript 7"

MiTypeScript — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:22:32 +0000

sub-1day-first-frame-of-DOOM LFGGGGGG

New comment by MiTypeScript in "TypeScript 5.5"

MiTypeScript — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:15:28 +0000

regarding the "Isolated Declarations" items from TypeScript 5.5: next week we're doing a PR code review/interview with Titian Cernicova-Dragomir, one of the main people pushing that work. It'll be very similar in scope/style to the one above with Dan Vanderkam. If you have questions to ask Titian about it, let us know and we'll ask him next week!

New comment by MiTypeScript in "TypeScript 5.5"

MiTypeScript — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:06:36 +0000

Many of us had given up hope that what ended being the "Inferred Predicate Types" feature of this release could ever be possible... and in the end, it was just like 10 lines of code!!

If you like technical deep dives on new TypeScript features, we did just such a deep dive[1] on this feature's PR with the author himself, Dan Vanderkam. He goes through how he got the idea and motivation for what ended up being a really creative fix.

[1] https://youtu.be/LTuzl2r2HjA

New comment by MiTypeScript in "The TC-39 just introduced a new stage: stage 2.7"

MiTypeScript — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:12:47 +0000

If you're curious about the naming scheme (it now goes 0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 2.7 -> 3 -> 4), then you can read the discussion surrounding the name from the last meeting notes [1].

Also, for a quicker digest, Rob Palmer (from the committee) tweeted about it [2]

[1] https://github.com/tc39/notes/blob/main/meetings/2023-11/nov...

[2] https://twitter.com/robpalmer2/status/1755362667416748266

The TC-39 just introduced a new stage: stage 2.7

MiTypeScript — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:10:37 +0000

Article URL: https://tc39.es/process-document/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310601

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by MiTypeScript in "STC (Rust-based TypeScript type checker) is officially abandoned"

MiTypeScript — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:47:52 +0000

This was a super promising project that made a lot of progress. The pin by the author makes it official.

STC (Rust-based TypeScript type checker) is officially abandoned

MiTypeScript — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:47:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dudykr/stc/issues/1101

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066017

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by MiTypeScript in "Installing Git has 17 steps now"

MiTypeScript — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:47:56 +0000

it's chaos these days on twitter, isn't it: we posted the same thing to reddit, maybe it'll work better there: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/17mwggv/installing_...

New comment by MiTypeScript in "Installing Git has 17 steps now"

MiTypeScript — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:20:47 +0000

good thing there's WinGet.. but still.. imagine starting out and being excited about learning webdev and then having to answer all these questions.

Installing Git has 17 steps now

MiTypeScript — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MiTypeScript/status/1720444745841860977

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38129156

Points: 2

# Comments: 3