I've now spend 5 days learning TypeScript. The more I learn the less I like it to be honest. There's a lot of good parts, but there's also a lot of weird and confusing parts who's overhead for my use-case just makes it really hard to work with
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I learnt TypeScript several years ago and came to the same conclusion. I thought it might have evolved since but perhaps not. I think
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There is appeal as a gateway drug to JavaScript for existing legacy platform developers (Java, .net, etc). It's not terrible, it has good things, but if you're already all in on JavaScript there's almost no concrete technical reason to adopt it.
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