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Mike Bybee • Edited

Must be even more exhausting, putting forth that much effort to FUD my "FUD" (which couldn't possibly be based on numerous real life experiences over several years, because you disagree with me).

And Dahl's experience isn't nearly as uncommon as you would have people believe. That's why I referred to it. In this case, it's a matter of direct impact on a tool that more and more people are migrating to, away from Node. It's a BFD.

As for Simpson, he has expressed plenty of opinions unapologetically against TypeScript. As I said, it must have been exhausting to hunt down one snippet that was mere indifference.

And there's still the (pathetic) matter of editing a comment to make it appear that I made up a direct quote from you. It's OK. We all contradict ourselves at times, especially in the heat of an argument (and frankly, it wasn't that big of a deal until you resorted to the narcissistic, abusive boyfriend tactic of "I never said that!!!"). It's not ok to resort to virtual gaslighting when called on a contradiction (and again, a minor one until you went this route).

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Mike Bybee

There's obviously nothing to be gained from continuing this "debate." You like TypeScript. I like actual JavaScript.

Let's not get any deeper in the weeds, so you don't have to resort to any more toxic behavior. On the whole, DEV's comments are extremely productive even when there is disagreement. This, on the other hand, is more akin to Reddit.

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Sam Wight

Must be even more exhausting, putting forth that much effort to FUD my "FUD" (which couldn't possibly be based on numerous real life experiences over several years, because you disagree with me).

You provided no evidence to support your claims and severely misunderstood basic parts of Typescript. I doubt your life experiences were extensive enough for you to be able to make an informed decision on whether Typescript is useful for a project or not if you were unable to get basic things right.

And Dahl's experience isn't nearly as uncommon as you would have people believe.

Please provide evidence that this is the case. Are there any other experiences with Typescript that I should be reading about? Are tons of people using Typescript as a runtime instead of using as a compile-time tool, as it's usually intended to do?

As for Simpson, he has expressed plenty of opinions unapologetically against TypeScript.

Please provide links, I could not find any evidence of this.

As I said, it must have been exhausting to hunt down one snippet that was mere indifference.

This was taken from the first page of google:

(and frankly, it wasn't that big of a deal until you resorted to the narcissistic, abusive boyfriend tactic of "I never said that!!!")

There is literally no need to behave like this. It's toxic and I suggest you stop.

There's obviously nothing to be gained from continuing this "debate." You like TypeScript. I like actual JavaScript.

I like both. This is not an either/or situation, it's possible to like multiple languages at the same time.

so you don't have to resort to any more toxic behavior

I was not the one that compared the person I'm talking with to an 'abusive boyfriend'. And you're right, this conversation is done. Dev.to admins have been notified accordingly. Please stop with this behavior. It creates a toxic and unwelcoming atmosphere for those that are new to Dev.

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Mike Bybee • Edited

Is it done or am I supposed to provide examples?

And tattling to the admins after you edited your comment and called me a liar for quoting it in its original form? The same admins who would be most likely to have a record of your edit?

Yeah. I'm done. Let them sort it out, but let the record show that I never attacked anyone personally (as you did many times, provable at least until you make more edits) unless calling out a quoted contradiction (which you then deleted) counts, until you continued that attack by calling me a liar with nothing but an edited comment to back up the claim (the aforementioned "virtual gaslighting," which apparently continues with you suddenly "taking the high road" immediately after yet another personal attack).

Feel free to get the last word in, as I'm sure you will.