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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by knocte on Saturday July 01, 2017 @10:29AM (#14677228)
> Javascript, type-related bugs were very, very rare.

That's because you're not seeing them. I bet that if you plug your frontend to an error-reporting tool (e.g. Sentry) you will be overwhelmed to see all the corner-cases you are overseeing.

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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by k__ on Saturday July 01, 2017 @10:31AM (#14677236)
but how much of these edge cases are really happening?
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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by mdellabitta on Saturday July 01, 2017 @11:37AM (#14677529)
Sentry and tools like it are reporting errors that are happening in production to real users.
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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by k__ on Saturday July 01, 2017 @01:56PM (#14678104)
Ah okay, so it's not reporting theoretical edge cases but real errors?
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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by knocte on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:24PM (#14678248)
Yes
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