IDE support?

[Axel Rauschmayer]

> I'm hopeful that type inference combined with class syntax and an (eventual) traits system will get us "there", so that you can use structural type tests for enforcement and that the IDE can get the benefit of hints through inference.

Yes. Can’t wait.

> That said, I think the "I want to refactor automatically" use-case is sort of over-played.


Indeed. The type-system related features I use most often in Eclipse are:
- *Safely* renaming a method or function. I do this frequently to keep the vocabulary used in methods etc. fresh. All JS IDEs that I have tried are not much fun in this regard.
- Jump to the definition of a method/function.
- Find all invocations of a method/function. Often, I just change the name of a method (e.g. by appending an "x") and go through all the errors that that produces.

Anything else (extracting or inlining a method, etc.) is nice to have, but not as crucial.

I love that JS’s more dynamic nature often lets me keep inheritance hierarchies flatter.

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