This leads to a very strange scenario that the more complex the issue even when you go for help, communicating the intent of the code is as important as the function. When talking about possible solutions it isn't unlike people looking at modern art trying to critique the intent and the emotion of a toilet paper roll nailed to a wall. You can spend hours perfecting an elegant solution to your types without shipping any new workable code. It makes you feel really good and clever when you get it right. It is metaprogramming to the highest degree. It gets even more awkward when you are trying to use a 3rd party library who is more concerned about spending several months getting it right than getting something out that works (while in meanwhile the current types are effectively broken).
This makes little sense to me except in the context of generics. It's the same thing as saying Picassos 'Guernica' is noisy, chaotic, ugly (all true) until you discover the history behind it. Only then is its genius seen.
Exactly. The artistic comparison is exactly what I'm getting at. Its strange for my tools to be like Picasso. I'm not particular stoked when code is that way.
This makes little sense to me except in the context of generics. It's the same thing as saying Picassos 'Guernica' is noisy, chaotic, ugly (all true) until you discover the history behind it. Only then is its genius seen.
Exactly. The artistic comparison is exactly what I'm getting at. Its strange for my tools to be like Picasso. I'm not particular stoked when code is that way.
I spent 15 years in C#. When LINQ and Generics came out, I didn't at first see the value, why? Because I was alredy doing it without them.
Once I dug in, I couldn't live without either. But, I did have to rewire my thoughts and go through a painful learning curve.
Only then, did I start noticing code duplication based on type only. Generics extended my insight and forever changed my coding style.
Today, I have not yet had the need to use Generics in Typescript, but when I do, it'll be a no brainer.
Generics aren't for beginners nor is it for typeless programmers.