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📣 brundolf

Is Flow (JS type system) dead?


The community seems to be coalescing around TypeScript, to a point where even third-party projects like Deno support it exclusively. I haven't been keeping up with Flow for a few years, but I never hear about it anymore and last time I used it it had lots of issues.

Is it in maintenance mode, or is it still hoping to compete one day? Does it have a dedicated userbase or just legacy code?


  👤 johncoltrane Accepted Answer ✓
I read https://medium.com/flow-type/clarity-on-flows-direction-and-... here like two or thee weeks ago. In short, their priority is still internal teams and projects.

👤 yen223
It is getting harder and harder to justify using it, given that you'll be giving up the much larger library of type definitions that Typescript has.

👤 Raed667
It is pretty much dead, at my company we migrated our entire frontend codebase from Flow to TypeScript and we're happier for it.