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I have noticed a lot of people who grew up only using dynamic typing languages are discovering static typing for the first time and proclaiming it to be the "ne

• antihero 6y ago
  What exact value does this comment add other than some weird attempt to give off some air of superiority? A lot of of people are "discovering" TypeScript because it is the first widely used and well supported attempt to bring static typing to a language that is currently the only mainstream option for programming to web.
  • cryptica 6y ago
    They mean that people who have been back and forth multiple times over many years don't see the value in TypeScript. This is totally consistent with my 15 years of experience working on many different complex projects and having gone back and forth between JS and TS. TS helps if the project is really poorly written... But that's not something to aspire to.
• cryptica 6y ago
  I have 15 years experience and I agree with you completely. The TS propaganda is so intense that I'm seriously wondering if Microsoft is paying people to shill TypeScript... I just can't figure out why they would do this but the degree of misinformation and downvoting is so intense that I can't think of any other explanation.