r/typescript

Founded October 2012 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 20

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

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r/typescript — frequently asked

How many members does r/typescript have?

r/typescript has 185,854 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 20. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/typescript growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/typescript yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 1; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/typescript?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/typescript yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/typescript created?

r/typescript was founded in October 2012 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

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