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Classes are very underutilised in TypeScript. I recently introduced them to our codebase at my day job and got a fair bit of pushback because it wasn’t “JavaScr

Classes are very underutilised in TypeScript. I recently introduced them to our codebase at my day job and got a fair bit of pushback because it wasn’t “JavaScripty” enough.

tadfisher 2y ago
That's a weird objection, because Typescript classes are literally Javascript classes[1]. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
- afavour 2y ago
  There was plenty of outrage when classes were added to JS. “JS uses prototypal inheritance, not OOP!”
  - krapp 2y ago
    I'm still a bit cranky about that, but because objects should be good enough for anyone. They aren't even really classes anyway.
    - Aeolun 2y ago
      If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, for all intents and purposes, it is a duck.
chrysoprace 2y ago
I like classes well enough; I just find that often they over-complicate simple code, especially when you introduce inheritance. Since classes are effectively just syntax sugar I often find it's more intuitive to go with object syntax but to each their own. So long functionality is isolated in modules I'm happy.