Re:John Carmack on Mutable Variables
by qmmmur on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:40AM
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As will Typescript, at least using Biome to lint it does.
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eslint has this too: https://eslint.org/docs/latest/rules/prefer-const
My very minor complaint about TypeScript is you use to use `const` which is 2 additional letters.
Seriously though, I do find it slightly difficult to reason about `const` vars in TypeScript because while a `const` variable cannot be reassigned, the value it references can still be mutated. I think TypeScript would benefit from more non-mutable values types... (I know there are some)
Swift has the same problem, in theory, but it's very easy to use a non-mutable value types in Swift (`struct`) so it's mitigated a bit.