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Re:Show HN: Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL C... by porsager on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:12AM (#30801712)
Haha.. There's plenty of us out there, it's probably just that we'd rather do actual stuff than talk about doing it. A bit like Typescript - it doesn't really do anything, it just talks about it.

Joking aside, I generally don't want to get into the debate, because I believe people work differently, and there should be room for doing both things. It's just a bit sad that Typescript is being pushed so hard as if it's the only right way.

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Re:Show HN: Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL C... by jamil7 on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:42AM (#30802054)
> It's just a bit sad that Typescript is being pushed so hard as if it's the only right way.

It's being evangelised as if it has zero downsides, it introduces overhead to what can already be a brittle dependency/build chain - providing questionable levels of actual type safety. This is coming from someone who generally prefers typed languages too, Typescript to me is the exception to that rule.

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