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I feel very productive in statically typed languages like Rust and Swift but hard agree on Typescript and I’ve said it here before. It feels like the worst of b
by jamil7 6y ago
I feel very productive in statically typed languages like Rust and Swift but hard agree on Typescript and I’ve said it here before. It feels like the worst of both worlds, extra code and dependencies for limited type safety. The amount of times it causes some issues with compatibility or a library has missing or incorrect typings has left a bad taste in my mouth. Granted I always work on small teams or alone though.
- samhuk 6y agoI agree with the library compatibility issues for typescript, I've felt that pain before, but it is getting better by the day with more adoption. I've always held the belief that the major flaw of Typescript was that it is preceded by Javascript. This caused fragmentation. If the web was Typescript first, I believe it would have been quite the "nirvana". But then again, Rome wasn't built in a day...