Design Meeting Notes, 11/19/2024

[DanielRosenwasser]

Notes from @RyanCavanaugh

Node unflagging --experimental-strip-types

nodejs/typescript#17

• Removes types
• Doesn't do downleveling or e.g. enum syntax
  • Covered by --experimental-transform-types
• Requires no commandline flag
• Node.js docs cover recommended tsconfig settings
• We don't have any flag to cover the "no enum" restriction though
  • We should have this flag
  • See Tsconfig option to disallow features requiring transformations which are not supported by Node.js' --strip-types #59601
  • We should name it
  • Is this just a temporary flag if nodejs et al will support these features anyway?
• Many people want this for purity reasons (complimentary)
• Should imply verbatimModuleSyntax and isolatedModules but does not enforce that
• TODO: Name this (extremely difficult), implement it (easy, probably)
• Should we support const x = require('foo') in TS?
  • Probably (eventually)
• Excited!