Evening confession: I don't like typescript
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It just feels that I'm not trusted to write safe javascript code.
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Most people cannot be
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Typescript sucks like Java
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Oh no, it sucks in totally different ways.
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In projects where multiple developers are involved, having type information is actually quite liberating--you can speed through reading and understanding unfamiliar/others' code by drawing attention just to the contracts (method signatures, interfaces, etc)
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And when I say "contracts", I mean the TypeScript/typed definitions. Of course we can look at a method in plain old JS to learn about how code interacts, but the speed you can do it at when everything has type definitions is much greater. Critical for large projects w/teams.
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Famous last words ^^
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That’s the point! You’re not (nobody is!). The tooling verifies your assumptions and tells you whether your work can be trusted. Think of those types as very terse unit tests that give you instant feedback.
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