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It is all an illusion. Unicode, ASCII, base 10 numbers, are all lies. Our CPUs know binary registers of certain sizes, ints and floats, and nothing else. Every
by com2kid 3y ago
It is all an illusion. Unicode, ASCII, base 10 numbers, are all lies. Our CPUs know binary registers of certain sizes, ints and floats, and nothing else.
Everything else is a lie that we make work by throwing a lot electricity at a lot of fancy sand and out the other end comes something that looks reasonable.
That said, TS has a really nice type system that is absurdly flexible and at times quite fun to use.
- eropple 3y agoI say the phrase "TypeScript crimes" a lot, and it is almost always a positive. Most programmers I work with and have worked with are not wielding the type system in the same way, and that's usually okay--because I tend to be the one building the libraries they then use, and the compiler keeps folks from doing things with my code that I didn't plan for.