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by lazarljubenovic 2335 days ago
> the list of such difficult issues is practically infinite

Precisely. No matter how good a language is, you can always say "but it doesn't do xyz". If you want to replace the human brain by a language, then you're looking for AI, not a language.

I understand what you mean, and I agree that these things are lacking from TypeScript. And I would love them. TypeScript is slowly adding more and more things, mitigating issues one by one, which were previously dissed off by developers with "it doesn't even do xyz".

I have my job because my brain is smarter than TypeScript's compiler. And it does help me, because I know which things I don't have to think about anymore, based on how I write the code. So it does help me, because I think less about the set of problems which it DOES solve.