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Concrete Types for TypeScript

Authors Gregor Richards, Francesco Zappa Nardelli, Jan Vitek

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Gregor Richards
Francesco Zappa Nardelli
Jan Vitek

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Gregor Richards, Francesco Zappa Nardelli, and Jan Vitek. Concrete Types for TypeScript. In 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 37, pp. 76-100, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2015.76

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Typescript extends JavaScript with optional type annotations that are, by design, unsound and, that the Typescript compiler discards as it emits code. This design point preserves programming idioms developers are familiar with, and allows them to leave their legacy code unchanged, while offering a measure of static error checking in parts of the program that have type annotations. We present an alternative design for TypeScript, one where it is possible to support the same degree of dynamism, but where types can be strengthened to provide hard guarantees. We report on an implementation, called StrongScript, that improves runtime performance of typed programs when run on a modified version of the V8 JavaScript engine.

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  • Gradual typing
  • dynamic languages

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