kjtekn

No longer enjoying programming is a cost nobody can afford to pay. When I read the long list of c#, I mean typescript documentation, it gives me PTSD from c# and java, which people used to hate here, but now suddenly like and let me tell you it has nothing to do with microsoft social engineering.

Lets be honest here, these reasons are really weak. Living documentation - TypeScript is less readable. There is more stuff you have to read. Stuff that isn't even relevant. I see a "cars" variable. Oh no, I don't know what type it is, I am going to have a panic attack. Don't worry that cars.map((c) => c.model); is the next line or whatever. What type is it, I must know!

auto-refactoring.. yeah we all trust that. Until you come to the boundaries where all the types don't exist, like from the client to the server, to the database via its message system, etc. All the stuff coming in and out of your code is untyped.

Autocomplete works without typescript, even if it uses "the typescript engine". The types aren't needed.

Eliminates an entire class of bugs that nobody has ever had a problem with.

I have a library that is much like every other library in javascript. I decided to try TypeScript on it once as a test. The idea was to implement all the correct interfaces so that people couldn't call the wrong chain of methods. The interface list was almost the same size as my entire codebase.

I think TypeScript is essentially for retards. It is like "we need to lock everything down so the mediocre people we have to hire on mass can't break anything".

I like how nobody has realized that typescript is classic Microsoft embrace, extend, extinguish. Oh no, they have "turned a corner". This is a different Microsoft! Haha.. they are exactly the same. Every single company has wanted to try and control JavaScript as it takes over more and more of the roles other languages used to fill.

Google failed with their new language, Microsoft is having some success. Google claimed "javascript was too slow, so we need Dart". Hmm, turns out to be complete bullshit and electron applications are now the standard way to create desktop applications. Microsoft is claiming "you need static typing", which is more bullshit.

First Microsoft embraced JavaScript, then they made TypeScript to extend it, and now there is talk of "hey why not just use c# with web assembly etc". "why not just make deno TypeScript only". "what if Chrome only ran TypeScript, would it be faster?".

With vscode->typescript->github, Microsoft is managing to gain control of the masses of mediocre developers, while the good programmers will always be elusive. A digital divide is getting bigger.