To type or not to type?

2022/03/21 by Justus Bogner, Manuel Merkel · 6 voices · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Software Engineering Research #Software Testing and Debugging Techniques #cs.SE

paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3524842.3528454

openalex publication_date 2022/05/23 · openalex created_date 2023/01/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

JavaScript (JS) is one of the most popular programming languages, and widely used for web apps, mobile apps, desktop clients, and even backend development. Due to its dynamic and flexible nature, however, JS applications often have a reputation for poor software quality. While the type-safe superset TypeScript (TS) offers features to address these prejudices, there is currently insufficient empirical evidence to broadly support the claim that TS applications exhibit better software quality than JS applications.

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Discussions

• there is research paper on the subject a while ago arxiv.org/abs/2203.11115 "TypeScript for avoiding bugs in comparison to JavaScript may be more complicated than assumed. While using TS seems to hav [bsky, 8 points, 0 comments]
• To Type, or Not to Type [hn, 3 points, 0 comments]
• This is another paper that looks interesting but I haven't read it yet and don't know if it's good arxiv.org/abs/2203.11115 [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
• Quality of JavaScript and TypeScript Applications on GitHub [hn, 2 points, 1 comments]
• TypeScript has less code smells than JavaScript [hn, 2 points, 0 comments]
• To Type or Not to Type? A Comparison of the Quality of JavaScript and TS Apps [hn, 1 points, 1 comments]

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