is roblox typescript actually worth learning?

[golden current]

just wondering if i should put effort into learning TS and why ig

[trail vault]

prob not

roblox-ts is one of those things meant to assimilate web devs

yeah sure theres a bigger ecosystem but is it worth learning an entire new lang?

[lunar citrus]

u should, its a valuable skills that translate to most of web and its godly in increasing options

i landed 3 roles through ts and flamework

[steel depot]

It's easy to learn ts if you know lua

[trail vault]

it is yeah

ig it just depends if you wanna specialize in roblox devving specifically or have more diverse skills

like if you someday plan to do webdev then roblox-ts would be a good way to learn ts and also get familiar with the tooling around it

[mortal mortar]

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[steel depot]

but also if your game idea involves a lot of reuse in terms of classes/inheritance
because there're so many problems with autocompletion, linting, and inheritance combined when you use lua that I suppose buddy don't get me started 😄

[trail vault]

autocompletion and linting is a IDE issue not something you solve by switching languages 😭

but i suppose if you are already using something like VScode + Luau LSP you might aswell just use roblox-ts

and roblox-ts just mimics luau oop patterns once compiled

[steel depot]

There's no plugins or IDEs that solve the problems I asked you to not get me started talking about
They still suck at linting when it comes to OOP, I've tried so many settings, plugins, read many forum threads, asked countless people, but in the end seems like some people just put up with that fact while the rest just don't even know what oop is

and the third smallest part migrated to roblox ts

[trail vault]

Luau LSP with VScode solved a lot of the weird autocompletion and typing problems that i had with roblox studios IDE. basically the same setup you would use for roblox-ts but you work on the luau files themselves instead of compiling them

if linting is that much of an issue for you then fair, ts has a way more mature ecosystem