Comment by brap
16 hours ago
I remember properly learning JS from “The Good Parts” book, which makes it known from the start that JS is a nasty language but if you ignore many sharp edges it can be nice and elegant. I think this is especially true with (a subset of) TS. All you need is a very, very strict linter, and then you get to pretend you’re working in a mostly solid language.
I didn't read JS The Good Parts until it was well outdated, and I was glad to see that a lot of the sharp edges that Crockford lists have largely been eliminated. The book was written circa ES3, so some problematic features were removed in strict mode, we have replacements for some (let/const, for-of loops, etc), and we can sweep prototypes under the rug with ES6 classes, sometimes arrow functions even avoid awkward this-binding issues. The rest, like you said, TypeScript + a linter takes care of.