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The static typing hype bubble which started 10 years ago is soon going to burst. As a falloff expect decades of engineers lamenting overly engineered, overly v
by hcks 3y ago
The static typing hype bubble which started 10 years ago is soon going to burst.
As a falloff expect decades of engineers lamenting overly engineered, overly verbose, overly complex TS legacy apps.
- awestroke 3y agoI've never met anybody who prefers JS over TS. If anything, the dynamic typing bubble is bursting right now.
- yakshaving_jgt 3y agoI prefer JS over TS, and I'm predominantly a Haskell developer. But then again, I suppose we haven't met.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoI prefer how much cleaner JS code is compared to TS. Some TS errors are such an eyesore that I'm reminded of the ugliness of Microsoft.
- meiraleal 3y ago> I've never met anybody who prefers JS over TS. It is because the enterprise TS supporters are too loud. There are many here saying they consider people that dislike TS to be idiots and they don't lower themselves to discuss with those who think JS is preferable. They don't wanna argue, we don't wanna argue. Life is great.
- panzagl 3y agoHave you met anybody who prefers JS over Java?
- iopq 3y agoI do, because I don't enjoy having to throw some exception I don't care about just because it's "checked"
- BigJono 3y agoAnd decades of startups created with the next lisp/ruby/python/perl/JS. Sign me up for those. I for one would rather eat a bullet than maintain any of the TS I'm watching people write today. I don't think we're near the peak yet. We're still on the way up. I've seen $5M projects turn into $50M projects in the space of 5 years and nobody else in my little consulting bubble has noticed at all lol. It shouldn't take 100 devs to build a SaaS with 5 forms and a dashboard but here we are...