I finally converted my entire JS engine to Typescript. Found 68464327463 bugs... Took me a week... But I'm super happy now. I love types :D #Typescript #JS #JavaScript #WebGL #GameDev #IndieDev - ThreadSky

gamercatneko.bsky.social • 50 days ago

I finally converted my entire JS engine to Typescript. Found 68464327463 bugs... Took me a week... But I'm super happy now. I love types :D

#Typescript #JS #JavaScript #WebGL #GameDev #IndieDev

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repraze8.bsky.social•50 days ago

Tell me you didn't build your own math library 😅

gamercatneko.bsky.social•50 days ago

kinda, I use glMatrix.js for the most stuff, but i rebuild it with fixed types for typescript and without that first "out" parameters. Everything else I built myself 😅

repraze8.bsky.social•50 days ago

Interesting! I found that out was pretty good for performance optimization to avoid unnecessary copies.
I ended up with a .copy/.clone and otherwise assume you're changing the vector.

gamercatneko.bsky.social•50 days ago

yeah that's the best solution imo. I'm aware of that, I did this some time ago, because of learning purposes. I will definitely add the "out" back in the future, when glMatrix v4 is ready. should be easy now :)

gautier.dev•49 days ago

Hey! I'd love to read about what prompted you do a complete rewrite in TypeScript, how you pulled it through and the exact bugs it found, any chance you write an article? Thanks 🙌

gamercatneko.bsky.social•48 days ago

Hey, I didn't expect a question like this 😄 I’m doing all of this in my spare time, so I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to write an full article. I’ll think about it.
In the meantime, I’m happy to answer any questions 🙂

gautier.dev•48 days ago

It should fit in a few skeets! First of all, why did you decide to move from JS to TS?

gamercatneko.bsky.social•48 days ago

basically because I have so many modules, it became difficult to keep track of which module needs which parameters. Now it is much more structured and readable. It is also type-safe and I can use interfaces, parameter properties and generics. Furthermore, I wanted to try WebAssembly in the future

gautier.dev•48 days ago

All good reasons! Was it hard to migrate?

gamercatneko.bsky.social•48 days ago

It wasn't difficult, but it took a while to provide everything with reasonable types. But maybe only because I wanted to achieve 100% coverage 😅

twemlow.dev•50 days ago

How does one go around fixing that many issues 💀😂

gamercatneko.bsky.social•50 days ago

I was just kidding :) but I actually found a lot of inconsistencies in function parameters and names in objects. That would indeed have been a very big problem in the future 😅 now i have fixed types and know exactly the right order an names at any time 😀

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