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"TypeScript adds a great deal of complexity both in tooling and dependencies, and I do not think that it is worth it." The subjective parts of that statement a
by evmar 7y ago
"TypeScript adds a great deal of complexity both in tooling and dependencies, and I do not think that it is worth it."
The subjective parts of that statement are the author's opinion and fine enough, but I am confused by the "dependencies" part. TypeScript is a single self-contained dependency. Especially in the context of the larger web ecosystem where to do almost anything else you do need a million dependencies, I find this remark pretty confusing.
- soygul 7y agoReference is to the type definitions that you mostly need separately for your dependencies: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/mast... Obviously this is not obligatory. Also I agree, the statement is not clear so I'll add above point to the article.
- mikealva 7y agoHonestly, it's hard listening to you ramble against Typescript. Adding types to my projects has helped tremendously in reducing bugs.