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by 29athrowaway 1232 days ago
Have fun doing extra work:

- writing unit tests that will likely be not exhaustive

- refactoring your unit tests constantly each time you change something

- do all that without the assistance of a compiler telling you what broke

- having to read code to infer types by hand

All all of that for what? so that your code still breaks.

Comparing strings by hand is certainly the best use of human time. If we only had machines capable of doing that.

> My velocity is so high! Look at all those "type mismatch" Jira tickets I've closed in the last month! I am a 10xer. I've multiplied my work 10x!

- Average TypeScript hater testimonial

1 comments

I hate TS, I use proper OOP style JS with JSDOC and Webstorm type-hints.

Never have any of the issues you mention and even better, never have to deal with the fucking Typescript compiler...