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Discussion on: Typescript - why to use "unknown" instead of "any"

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Ishan Srivastava

unknown is just pessimistic 'any' 🙈. With any , ts is like "maybe it is of type array, who knows?", and with unknown it is like "dude, I am not taking any risks 😇".

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Arika O

Hehe, nice analogy :).

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Carlos V.

Best explanation ever