I do agree with the overriding App vs Lib thing. In the article I was dealing this on 3 fronts, as a library author, then as Development Manager on frontend and backend of a Preact/GraphQL project. I will say the backend experience with TS was great. It felt easy and just worked. There were some poor types at first but it was never an obstacle.
On the client-side, it was much more painful. Part of it was just library mismatches and trying to pull of Preact Compat cleanly. And weirdness around libraries designed without TS in mind. All that being said it is a lot easier to sort of just make it work as necessary and take the value where you can. We stayed on TS for the project and the developers seemed relatively happy with it except when they got stuck.
I think I found it much more annoying in a prototyping sort of sense. Sometimes developers would be stuck, and I found it easiest to lay out the logic in simple code. With CoffeeScript my psuedo code would basically execute. We were past that with JS anyway but TS felt like the opposite end of the spectrum. In one sense it's probably better anyway. The old 10x developer leaving behind 10x the number of bugs. But my former development manager was like that and I had continued the tradition. In my career I've never seen any teams deliver that fast before or again. I'm not going to say it isn't without tradeoffs, but I find it interesting when looking at it as a matter of points along a scale. Not simply better/worse.
As a lib author, most of my friction came around functional programming APIs with paths and partial applications, and JSX. Solid uses a custom JSX compilation and typescript definitely has tied my hands more than a few times. I hit about 5 issues within my first week that have been taking years to resolve. They have addressed 2 out of the 5 in the last 2 years. Honestly I think those factors made things particularly awkward. I wouldn't expect most libraries to even hit these sort of things.
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
We're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.
I do agree with the overriding App vs Lib thing. In the article I was dealing this on 3 fronts, as a library author, then as Development Manager on frontend and backend of a Preact/GraphQL project. I will say the backend experience with TS was great. It felt easy and just worked. There were some poor types at first but it was never an obstacle.
On the client-side, it was much more painful. Part of it was just library mismatches and trying to pull of Preact Compat cleanly. And weirdness around libraries designed without TS in mind. All that being said it is a lot easier to sort of just make it work as necessary and take the value where you can. We stayed on TS for the project and the developers seemed relatively happy with it except when they got stuck.
I think I found it much more annoying in a prototyping sort of sense. Sometimes developers would be stuck, and I found it easiest to lay out the logic in simple code. With CoffeeScript my psuedo code would basically execute. We were past that with JS anyway but TS felt like the opposite end of the spectrum. In one sense it's probably better anyway. The old 10x developer leaving behind 10x the number of bugs. But my former development manager was like that and I had continued the tradition. In my career I've never seen any teams deliver that fast before or again. I'm not going to say it isn't without tradeoffs, but I find it interesting when looking at it as a matter of points along a scale. Not simply better/worse.
As a lib author, most of my friction came around functional programming APIs with paths and partial applications, and JSX. Solid uses a custom JSX compilation and typescript definitely has tied my hands more than a few times. I hit about 5 issues within my first week that have been taking years to resolve. They have addressed 2 out of the 5 in the last 2 years. Honestly I think those factors made things particularly awkward. I wouldn't expect most libraries to even hit these sort of things.