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Refusing TypeScript is a signal that you don't care about code quality

by PleaseHelpMe on 9/10/23, 3:10 PM with 3 comments

• by coldtea on 9/10/23, 3:32 PM

  BS title claims is a signal you don't have any intellectual contribution to make, and probably shouldn't be allowed near a codebase with those black and white "opinions".

• by jauntywundrkind on 9/10/23, 5:22 PM

  A higher up wrote off a potential coder for blowing off typescript.

  TS is really amazing to have, but holy crud it's by far the biggest hurdle you can make for yourself. Lint is already a lot of no fun debating versus the computer, 90% not really valuable to me. Arguing with TS to do something valid is a miserable time hole.

  And then there's how much pain suffering & woe one takes on for having to maintain the build toolchain.

  I'm still pro TS but it took a while to not detest every minute of using it. I still see & understand. And honestly good tests make the "code quality" concern feel not so true to me.