> So it's easy for that 4 hours to extend to a whole weekend to make sure all the latest patterns, and trendy libraries are used. And including those could pot

> So it's easy for that 4 hours to extend to a whole weekend to make sure all the latest patterns, and trendy libraries are used. And including those could potentially be a liability. I had a take-home assignment (a front-end application) where I decided to use Typescript, because I would like to use it and I figured it would reflect nicely. One of the items of feedback given (I still passed) was that there was an implicit "any" in the code. If I hadn't included Typescript would I have gotten feedback that I wasn't using Typescript? If you're using Typescript but not going the full 10 yards and making sure it's set up in a perfect way you'd use it in production? Could including it harm your chances over not including it because you're not using it in a way the reviewer likes? Ultimately you'd think it wouldn't matter and that just including it was good enough (and I think it was for this specific reviewer), but it's a tricky game of hoping your choices line up with the unknown opinions and biases of the person reviewing in order for it to work out.