Comment by 734129837261
5 years ago
I keep getting downvoted on Reddit for stating that I personally hate TypeScript to the max. It ruined the beauty of JavaScript (once you know it, anyway, I understand there are difficulties for JS-novices) and I honest to goodness 100% do not EVER find myself thinking: "Gosh, thanks TypeScript!" - on the contrary, it's always: "For fuck's sake you stupid POS TypeScript, you're wasting my time for no benefit at all."
Strong-typed languages (especially in the damn browser) make no sense to me. It's not like we need to manage memory or anything.
20+ Years of experience here, and I hate TS with the passion of a thousand suns.
It might be your strong wording that people are responding to
The benefits of typing are, imo, largely unrelated to needing to manage memory
I disagree on strong typing. I think this is actually a good improvement that prevents many silly mistakes. But static typing and constant (re-)compilation is the part that kills the joy when creating software.
TypeScript isn’t strongly typed when doing “.map” on a non-array crashes at runtime: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55229131/typescript-arra...