The TypeScript DRAMA EXPLAINED 👩‍💻 #technology #programmer #softwareengineer #coder #typescript

[cr_spirit]

"What's your type?"
"data: any"

[the_foxware]

Handling types isn't as time consuming as debugging your code for type-related issues.

[RainingArtillery]

I'm always amazed by how many languages were invented just to fix javascript. Failure has never been so inspiring!

[unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz]

I refuse to believe that anyone who isn’t either extremely high level or has never even written an even mid sized application actually thinks that dynamic typing is better. It’s a nightmare and my literal least favorite thing in language design

[lorenzi]

That's why I'm hoping that JS eventually integrates native types. Pretty sure there's a proposal for it already

[jjpaq]

Big advantage of TypeScript is when you're starting to work with a new codebase, it's super easy to follow the chain of types back to the exact definition, and see what arguments are being passed to a function and how to access a parameter you need. And you're less likely to break unfamiliar code because it'll become very obvious if you don't know what you're doing.

[oliveryt]

I came from C and Kotlin when I started with JS... at this moment I understood how valuable static typing is.

[LaughingMan]

having static typing also makes code much more legible. Yeah, there's more boilerplate and it's more verbose, but that's not always a bad thing

[WellDressedMuffin]

Data: any hides in my closet at night and haunts me while I sleep.

[ggorg]

Types or no types - I'm going with Rust.

[wilkesreid]

In most cases, the time spent getting your code to pass typing constraints pre-compilation is way less than the time spent debugging code that wouldn’t have had a bug if it had been strongly typed. The problem with TypeScript to me is that you can’t do what you need to do sometimes because of silly constraints that don’t help. It’s weird sometimes. I’m truly hoping that one day I can write everything in Go and compile to WASM

[_Akhilleus_]

I feel that writing the types also helps us to understand what we are doing

[DxBlack]

🎶I ain't got no type...

...bad code is the only thing that I write!🎶

[epicboi]

Compile C# to JS and everything will be fine ;)

[tonhom]

type system is really crucial for mid - big size project

[nowayicommented]

It all actually started when Richard Harris dropped TS from Svelte

[stevefan]

I'm going with Hindley-Milner type inference (HMTI). You can just declare some with types and the rest are automatically inferred for you.

[incredible]

once you start typescript, there is no going back. It is a must for large projects.

[barfbaby]

the whole point of stuff like that is to let people write a hello world program with copious amount of text so they get a feeling of affirmation. Big projects buckle unless a simple approach is used.

[mangadi]

i use js for like 2 years until i knew about ts, and i absolutely loved it.

i felt intimidated at first but its really nice. especially to be able to define the object returned from a function and get the autocompletion from that object felt really really good.