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goodpaul6 on July 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: TypeScript please give us reflection/runtime types

> This is not possible at all because TypeScript is a compiler

Not sure if this supports your point. Lots of compilers emit runtime type information, e.g. Golang, Java.

jakelazaroff on July 7, 2023 [–]

Those languages all have runtimes that can consume the type information. TypeScript does not.

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