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I suspect he is up for tenure review :P His proposals are not knew just spun differently. You can find critics from other physics/chemist regarding their suspicions as well.
Not everyone (most are kind and welcoming), but yeah that has been my experience as well with some members.
I really keep trying to use Atom, but it's just unacceptable currently when compared to Sublime. Very slow startups and laggy. This new version takes 5-10 seconds before I can start coding, that's far too slow. With every update I keep hoping things are faster, but only marginally so. VS code loads in less than 3 seconds and is a lot more snappy.
I don't understand why they don't address this issue as the highest priority problem. It's by far the most complained about issue. If the MS guys can make VS code launch that fast I don't see anything holding back Atom (save maybe coffeescript :P (tongue in cheek)).
Any tips to make a latex pandoc workflow viable for advanced math documents with custom commands and such. I.e. using the mathtools package and various advanced latex math commands?
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But aside from that, the most useful feature of typescript to me has been the productivity gains, just checkout: http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/ You can now have an IDE that provides useful information about clases/objects/etc. (imagine if javascript actually had proper codecompletion and intellisense)
To me typescript beats dart and coffeescript by miles. I don't have to use a new syntax or figure out the idiosyncrasies of a new language, it provides the type safety and tools that I need for javascript apps without reinventing the wheel in a very simple and intuitive form.
It solves the problems that javascript doesn't, type-safety. In fact I can't recall another language that is dynamic but also statically typed.