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There is a phenomenon among front-end developers. It’s a new phenomenon. I diagnose more and mor...
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I prefer straight JS... while I do often appreciate the extra context that TS provides in my editor, I don't like the extra time it takes to actually write code. I tend to separate my concerns (modules) fairly well and consistently and rarely gain more than I lose in terms of time due to the types of bugs the TS helps to prevent.
I've just posted a couple of comments elsewhere correcting one apparently common misunderstanding of Typescript that really bugs me. TypeScript's compile time type checking is giving people a false sense of security: they start forgetting to do proper type-checking and validation of incoming data and... Well; let's just say it's not my problem :shrug: