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by lawn 299 days ago
Types in TS can indeed become very complex (depending on their usage of course) and it might not be the best example of the benefits.

I personally think that simpler Rust is a better example of the benefits static typing (or maybe something like Gleam).
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cogman10 299 days ago
I'm on the fence. On the one hand I love the power of TS types that they can expose. On the other, I've seen a class of dev that, instead of relying on simple types, will try and make a monstrosity type that does unholy things.

I feel a little bit about it like I feel about RegEx. Small and simple are good, but once you start diving into the entire catalog of regex capabilities for a single expression you've made a mistake.

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gedy 299 days ago
> On the other, I've seen a class of dev that, instead of relying on simple types, will try and make a monstrosity type that does unholy things.

Totally agree, however that love of complexity will just squeeze into something else had they not had types to have fun with.

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