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> JS is a great language for it's intended purposes Which part of JS, as a programming language, do you see as great or even adequate when compared with contem
by rumanator 6y ago
> JS is a great language for it's intended purposes
Which part of JS, as a programming language, do you see as great or even adequate when compared with contemporary programming languages?
> Adding types post-hoc has never improved a codebase that I've seen but it has caused a lot more bad patterns to show up.
That assertion makes no sense. I mean, all TypeScript does is impose arbitrary sanity checks on a programming language which is plagued for not having any. Where do you interpret the addition of sanity checks as a source of problems?