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by johnsonjo 2144 days ago
I’m not sure. I find this in people that say JavaScript is better than TypeScript. Most people that learn TypeScript or Flow learn to love it even more than JavaScript once they get over the initial hurdles. Why? It’s more self documenting. It actually provides better auto completion. It scales much better for larger Frontend projects. Going without it is almost painful to me now. I now know a bit better a few of the big reasons why a lot of devs hate JavaScript. Because they are used to the great properties, tools, and features that come from having a well typed language. Languages seem to have big hurdles for no reason when it comes to their type systems, but those hurdles pay off.