Tech Talk: The Reason For Types with Jared Forsyth on ReasonML and Javascript
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Java Script Development
The libraries have done a lot to bring immutability as a norm into professional JavaScript development. So some type is an enumeration. It's like a Java enum, except it can hold data and different kinds of data. And it's so helpful when you're writing a switch statement and you can enumerate over all the different cases. Whereas in JavaScript, switch statements are anemic. They don't even have separate scope between the different branches with switch.
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