Hi, guys,
I thought I'd post something that's been bothering me a bit.
In recent weeks, quite a lot of activity and discussion has been around the JavaScript language service. It appears that it has been necessary to rewrite this component. That, obviously, is going to take up a lot of your resources at the expense of neglecting other pending features and bug fixes.
My question is: Is the JavaScript autocomplete even necessary?
Why not encourage people to use TypeScript?
With TypeScript one would get everything the JavaScript language service has to offer, plus static type checking, which incidentally is wholly optional.
With that out of the way, we would get more attention to the excellent value added by NTVS, such as
I thought I'd post something that's been bothering me a bit.
In recent weeks, quite a lot of activity and discussion has been around the JavaScript language service. It appears that it has been necessary to rewrite this component. That, obviously, is going to take up a lot of your resources at the expense of neglecting other pending features and bug fixes.
My question is: Is the JavaScript autocomplete even necessary?
Why not encourage people to use TypeScript?
With TypeScript one would get everything the JavaScript language service has to offer, plus static type checking, which incidentally is wholly optional.
With that out of the way, we would get more attention to the excellent value added by NTVS, such as
- The unit testing framework.
- The NPM UI.
- Debugging.
-
Azure deployment.