[izelnakri]

Identity politics based, brain-washed mentality in action. I do functional programming for years now and write JS more than a decade, and don't consider this feature to be a monstrosity. If anything, it is a nice addition to the language especially when it comes to designing ORMs.

The fact that this became the most upvoted comment on hacker news signals me something sad about this sites moderation. In addition to the fact that other most upvoted comments(arguments) are lacking depth and good context:

1 - not standard so I won't use it(yet mitigating would be easy & basic and there is a major/popular implementation in typescript), 2- I don't like how it looks(decades long I'm an artist argument)

Good arguments & discussions usually require in-depth knowledge, given how fast programming communities grow, there will be people who make these shallow arguments and they will get upvoted(will have more people agreeing to them).

Sadly this means old communities like hacker news content and moderation will get spoiled by this behavior and standard committees will keep getting many noisy pushback & shallow criticisms as more people become programmers and will have tendency to share their newly formed opinions rather too quickly.

I like and ok with criticisms, however I hope and expect them to be in-depth, not disappointingly this shallow.