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by giantDinosaur 2288 days ago
I don't even get this criticism - the problem with Typescript is that it's far too easy to bypass the type system and allow the dynamic parts of JS to do whatever you want. You can lie about your interfaces all day and <any> to your dynamic heart's content.

For what it's worth, my experience with programmers who think like you is that rarely they're actually genuinely talented and right, and mostly they just spew forth bugs which often sit dormant until they rear their ugly heads years later. Most people are better off thinking about their API's before they implement them, much like one would do in a real engineering discipline. Types are often (and yes, not always) a good way to draw the effort out to the front of your process.
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orange8 2288 days ago
Wow! What a mature, thoughtful response \s

Only the first and last sentences actually addressed the topic, the rest was just an angry emotional attack on those who think differently from you. Hope you're feeling better now.

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DonHopkins 2288 days ago
\s and not /s? I didn't realize there was such a thing a reverse sarcasm. Or is that some new fangled TypeScript string escape character?
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orange8 2288 days ago
\s or /s Dont care. Small minds, small arguments. Atleast you're consistent that way
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DonHopkins 2287 days ago
It's kind of funny how you boast that you don't want any hand holding from the compiler or IDE, yet you proudly proclaim and demonstrate that you're careless about syntax, spelling, and punctuation. And how you sarcastically complain about immature thoughtless responses, yet you're insulting and patronizing. ;) At least you're consistently self contradictory.
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orange8 2287 days ago
LOL!! |s
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DonHopkins 2287 days ago
Are you now clear on what Andrew Hejlsberg, the designer of TypeScript and C#, meant by "multi-paradigm" languages?

>I do think one of the things that is luckily happening is that, like as Larry says, everyone's borrowing from everyone, languages are becoming more multi-paradigm.

>I think it's wrong to talk about "Oh, I only like object oriented programming languages, or I only like imperative programming, or functional programming".

Look at the nice table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_p...

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