First, a sincere "Thanks!" for the feedback. It's appreciated. And, for the most part, I think I actually agree with everything you've written here.
I've been "slinging code" long enough now that I can (usually) assess, fairly quickly, the relative strengths-and-weaknesses of any given approach. Specifically, with regard to TS, I definitely don't disagree with the benefits you've outlined here.
In fact, another senior member of our team spoke up a month-or-so ago and said, "Guys... why are we going down the TS path???" And when he did, I pointed out code-completion as a major benefit. I use JetBrains/WebStorm, and I find their code-completion to be awesome - even for non-TS projects. But I will freely admit that the code completion is even better when I use it for TS projects.
That being said, part of my inspiration for writing this article was that, in the final analysis, I just didn't find these "benefits" to be worth the cost. To be absolutely crystal clear, I'm NOT saying that the benefits aren't there. And I'm not asking, at all, for you or anyone else to agree with my analysis. But for me, the benefit... just, isn't, there.
I will also outline one last point here: I've come to accept the fact that, a lot of TS's supposed-benefits are probably things that I've kinda figured out how to "fix" in my own vanilla-JS dev. And I'll freely admit that, in most teams, you can't assume that most of your devs are senior enough to have figured out those things on their own. So... on "most" teams, maybe TS is a far better option. I can freely acknowledge this. But for me.... it just feels like an unnecessary burden.
But... that's just a lotta opinion from me...
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First, a sincere "Thanks!" for the feedback. It's appreciated. And, for the most part, I think I actually agree with everything you've written here.
I've been "slinging code" long enough now that I can (usually) assess, fairly quickly, the relative strengths-and-weaknesses of any given approach. Specifically, with regard to TS, I definitely don't disagree with the benefits you've outlined here.
In fact, another senior member of our team spoke up a month-or-so ago and said, "Guys... why are we going down the TS path???" And when he did, I pointed out code-completion as a major benefit. I use JetBrains/WebStorm, and I find their code-completion to be awesome - even for non-TS projects. But I will freely admit that the code completion is even better when I use it for TS projects.
That being said, part of my inspiration for writing this article was that, in the final analysis, I just didn't find these "benefits" to be worth the cost. To be absolutely crystal clear, I'm NOT saying that the benefits aren't there. And I'm not asking, at all, for you or anyone else to agree with my analysis. But for me, the benefit... just, isn't, there.
I will also outline one last point here: I've come to accept the fact that, a lot of TS's supposed-benefits are probably things that I've kinda figured out how to "fix" in my own vanilla-JS dev. And I'll freely admit that, in most teams, you can't assume that most of your devs are senior enough to have figured out those things on their own. So... on "most" teams, maybe TS is a far better option. I can freely acknowledge this. But for me.... it just feels like an unnecessary burden.
But... that's just a lotta opinion from me...