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Discussion on: This is why I hate Typescript

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Michael De Abreu

Why did you stop reading?

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Aslan Vatsaev • Edited

It's a very bad satire to be honest, poorly executed, and is more damaging than helpful.

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Orekav

The examples are wrong.
Debug: lie
Just Angular: lie
Not compiling .js: LIE!!

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Michael De Abreu

Do you always stop reading at the middle of the article?

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Orekav

Yes... But you could do a mocking post putting better things!

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Michael De Abreu

Arguments are real through. It wouldn't be funny if the arguments wasn't. For me at least.

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Stephen Belovarich • Edited

With satire the reader knows what they are getting into. They are supposed to be shown very early on this is a joke.

There is no clear sign post here. You prompt the reader with a very strong word “hate” without then inserting a punch line anywhere.

It’s not funny.

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Cubicle Buddha • Edited

If you have to say that it’s satire, then it’s not good satire. The article is more damaging than helpful. If you like TypeScript then I can’t see why you would want to write an article like this that TS-dissenters will likely be reblogging to further their cause. This is due to the fact that most of the people who don’t like TypeScript haven’t actually tried it. And this article just proves their confirmation biases. Instead we should be clarifying why TypeScript makes many of us so happy.

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Michael De Abreu

Yes. That's the intention. People should learn to use something before they have an opinion on it. But most of the time they don't. They just read the title an make assumptions.

PS: if you another comments, there are plenty of hints about this being a satire post. You could also open the links for a few more. :P.

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Aslan Vatsaev

You're not getting it, if you want to write a good article about TypeScript, then just do so and be straight forward, instead of trying to "teach your readers a lesson about life" (and badly so), nobody wants to play your games and sit there in confusion trying to understand if you're being serious or not while reading your garbage of an article.

Be straight forward, people will appreciate you more...