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by futharkshill 1579 days ago
There is nothing worse than library or language maintainers who do not understand that "pure" error messages are absolute hell. If 99.99 % of the time a user should simply write x instead of y, the message should absolutely state that if possible.
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Amusingly to me, this is what drove me to TypeScript. “Don’t do that” be damned, I’ll get my useful errors from the compiler.