bob020202

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1. 1.▲
   by bob020202 2y ago

   If you explicitly mark types at lower levels, or just use typed libs, it's not very easy to pass the wrong type somewhere and have it still accidentally work. The most automatic type inference I can think of today is in Rust, which is
2. 2.▲
   by bob020202 2y ago

   No, I said there's nothing that exists right now that's theoretically better. Typescript isn't. It'd be great if TS's type inference were smart enough that it basically takes no additional dev input vs JS, but until
3. 3.▲
   by bob020202 2y ago

   Nothing is even theoretically better than Javascript for its intended use cases, web frontends and backends. Mainly because it went all-in on event loop parallelism early-on, which isn't just for usability but also performance. And did
4. 4.▲
   by bob020202 2y ago

   If it's not something that needs extensive testing, I'd rather maintain that codebase than a "proper" one. Data science people don't pump out 100 files with 20 layers of OOP, and they don't know how to use Redu