[matthewmacleod]

Stop being dismissive. You know that’s not the point.

I have a few applications that use the same API, and it’s consumed using a shared library in Typescript. There’s a little bit of code that takes raw messages, parses and validates them, then returns typed objects. This means we can use those typed objects confidently throughout the rest of the codebase, making some useful guarantees about the content of them and detecting errors at compile time. Parsing code is isolated and tested in a small area, like you light use unsafe code in Rust.

Yes, it would be nice if this was easier, such that parsing was automatically handled based on those types (and I don’t doubt that there are projects out there that do this). But that obviously doesn’t mean that no value is added.

It’s totally fine if Typescript doesn’t suit your applications, or your way of working - but it might be useful to consider that other people aren’t idiots.

[dang]

> Stop being dismissive. You know that’s not the point.

Please edit such swipes out of your comments here, regardless of how wrong or annoying you find someone else's comment. Your post would be much better without those bits and the swipe at the end.

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