Built by Facebook
Stats for past month: 0 merged PRs, 30 Proposed PRs, 50 closed issues, 135 new issues, SO Questions ~0.9k
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π Built by Facebook, just like React β in practice, this doesnβt seem to provide a marked advantage for flow
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π No βout-of-the-boxβ integration with any editor
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π Poor error messaging
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π Poor tooling (Getting Flow to run is not easy)
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π/π Flow is highly interested in creating a provably correct type system
Built by Microsoft
Stats for past month: 215 merged PRs, 46 Proposed PRs, 440 closed issues, 215 new issues, SO Questions ~38k
Used by: Lyft, Microsoft, Google, Asana,
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π Out-of-the-box, first class VSCode integration
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π More community type offerings
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π Easier to setup
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π Used by default in Angular2
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π Helpful error messaging
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π More frequent releases
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π/π Typescript is not interested in creating a βprovably correctβ type system β instead tries to strike balance between correctness and productivity
@briangonzalez Forkin' dis. Much respect, many thanks.