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Glad to see tooling in my native language. I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole, but sadly it seems to be the lingua franca for agentic t

by cedws 4mo ago

Glad to see tooling in my native language. I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole, but sadly it seems to be the lingua franca for agentic tools. The one thing that would keep me from making the jump is CC’s auto mode.

Mashimo 4mo ago
> I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole Why not? Is it because you need to change the code?
- cedws 4mo ago
  No, I’m just extremely averse to anything to do with JS/TS. The amount of bloat is insane and there’s a new supply chain attack every day at this point. Definition of a tire fire.
  - JaggerJo 4mo ago
    Yup - IMO it’s just the wrong tool for the job.
  - rvz 4mo ago
    Glad I am not the only one who sees this. The immaturity of the JS/TS ecosystem has only delivered a range of issues (too many to list here) and the negatives significantly outweigh the positives.
- Terretta 4mo ago
  > Is it because you need to change the code? Indeed! It would be difficult to deliberately design a more long-term-TCO-destructive ecosystem. Effectively everything about it is "the one you throw away", and worse, effectively everyone uses it as if they're building the one to throw away.
exe34 4mo ago
What's wrong with typescript? I was thinking of getting into it.
- cedws 4mo ago
  What language are you coming from? If I can do anything to stop you please tell me what that is.
- sshine 4mo ago
  TypeScript the language is fine. Almost great, even. JavaScript the ecosystem is mostly a flaming garbage dump of worms. You can take measures to lower the pain of being in a toxically incompetent package space devolving faster than you can type commands.
  - exe34 4mo ago
    oh I don't plan to npm anything other than something like esbuild and solidjs. I don't do churn.
- skybrian 4mo ago
  Couldn't tell you much about node.js, but I like Deno. I avoid npm dependencies. Occasionally there's one I need.
patriceckhart 4mo ago
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by cedws 4mo ago

Mashimo 4mo ago

> I don’t want to touch TypeScript stuff with a ten foot pole Why not? Is it because you need to change the code?

cedws 4mo ago
No, I’m just extremely averse to anything to do with JS/TS. The amount of bloat is insane and there’s a new supply chain attack every day at this point. Definition of a tire fire.
- JaggerJo 4mo ago
  Yup - IMO it’s just the wrong tool for the job.
- rvz 4mo ago
  Glad I am not the only one who sees this. The immaturity of the JS/TS ecosystem has only delivered a range of issues (too many to list here) and the negatives significantly outweigh the positives.
Terretta 4mo ago
> Is it because you need to change the code? Indeed! It would be difficult to deliberately design a more long-term-TCO-destructive ecosystem. Effectively everything about it is "the one you throw away", and worse, effectively everyone uses it as if they're building the one to throw away.

exe34 4mo ago

What's wrong with typescript? I was thinking of getting into it.

cedws 4mo ago
What language are you coming from? If I can do anything to stop you please tell me what that is.
sshine 4mo ago
TypeScript the language is fine. Almost great, even. JavaScript the ecosystem is mostly a flaming garbage dump of worms. You can take measures to lower the pain of being in a toxically incompetent package space devolving faster than you can type commands.
- exe34 4mo ago
  oh I don't plan to npm anything other than something like esbuild and solidjs. I don't do churn.
skybrian 4mo ago
Couldn't tell you much about node.js, but I like Deno. I avoid npm dependencies. Occasionally there's one I need.

patriceckhart 4mo ago

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