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Refusing TypeScript is a signal that you don't care about code quality (vitonsky.net)

submitted 2 years ago by vitonsky@programming.dev to c/programming@beehaw.org

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[–] sandriver@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reading the responses here, why are people so mad about types? Maybe I'm biased coming from a background of statically typed languages and mathematics. I'd rather have a good typing system that makes me think about data than just hoping I've thought about a problem right.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd rather have a good typing system...

So not typescript then.

I'm half joking, but the problem with typescript is that it's JavaScript with types. The industry needs to stop retrofitting types to dynamically typed languages. The type system is an intrinsic part of the language design and if you're going to have it, it should be there from day 1. Being dynamically typed wasn't a language bug. It is a feature designed for a certain class of problem. I'm sure 90% of proponents only want it so they get better completion in their IDE, but I personally think it makes a lot of code far more difficult to read.