He might've watched this video: https://youtu.be/5ChkQKUzDCs
TL;DR: Big projects, like Svelte, Drizzle and Turbo ditched TypeScript
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He might've watched this video: https://youtu.be/5ChkQKUzDCs
TL;DR: Big projects, like Svelte, Drizzle and Turbo ditched TypeScript
Wait until they realise its pointless…
For me, personally, yep; 100%. I've tried at least 3 times to convert, it just gets in my way. I'm way way faster with plain old JS. But I'm also a Rubyist so it is all ducks anyway.
I don't really get the appeal of strongly typed languages. Can't you just use try/catch blocks, and/or use functional programming and return early if the data structure of whatever you're working with isn't what you expected?
I guess it can help older code easier to maintain because the expected data structure is right there, but you could also just include it in a comment above the function.
I personally find TS slows down initial production of a project and raises so many unnecessary errors.
Is there some huge benefit that I'm missing? Because I don't really get the appeal. I mean, I do on some level, but I don't really understand why so many people are absolutely obsessed with TS.