Javascript, for all it's benefits, provides a considerable challenge for many developers. Especially in team environments, many web developers opt for different solutions to work around the pitfalls.
While reasons vary between developers, many leave for common, related reasons:
- Limited syntax
- Foreign concepts (prototypes)
- Perceived language limitations
- Lack of IDE support
- Preference for different syntax (Ruby)
There are many options available to web developers looking for Javascript alternatives.
- Coffee Script
- Traceur (ES6 compiler)
- Clojurescript
- Dart
- Typescript
Today, we'll be focusing on Typescript.