Um estudo comparativo entre JavaScript e TypeScript

Abstract

Context: JavaScript and TypeScript are powerful languages for the Web, enabling developers to efficiently transform ideas into digital reality. JavaScript is essential in this context, providing functionality and interactivity to websites, both on the front-end and back-end. TypeScript, in turn, is an extension of JavaScript that offers additional features, such as static typing. Motivation: The lack of detailed comparisons between these languages makes it difficult to identify their advantages and disadvantages. It is important to understand their differences and determine the situations in which each is more suitable. Objective: This work aims to perform a quantitative and qualitative comparison between JavaScript and TypeScript. Methodology: A comprehensive literature review was conducted to describe the specificities of the languages. Additionally, based on practical experience in implementing analogous algorithms in both languages, distinctive characteristics between them were analyzed. Results: The results highlight ten distinctive qualitative characteristics, such as flexibility, learning curve, compatibility, libraries, support, conciseness, productivity, maintainability, readability, and scalability. Quantitative tests on memory consumption and execution time in analogous algorithms in both languages showed no significant differences. Beneficiaries: This study benefits students by facilitating the learning of JavaScript and TypeScript, teachers who can use the results in their classes, developers who will have valuable information to decide which language to use, and companies that will be able to choose the most suitable language for their needs.