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I have seen a codebase which used Any for all the variables

coming from a java world, i always liked js as it gave me a lot of freedom. but as soon as the app started to grow beyond what i could comfortably fit in my brain, types began to make sense to me.

given the type of apps and size of teams i'm involved with, ts fits quite well and currently i'm pretty happy with it.

i have decided i never want to understand it

would rather build in a language which isn't fundamentally broken and ts is just a crappy hack on js

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having written both java and js before, ts feels familiar and i didn't need to spend too much time learning anything before i could write a useful app end to end.

depends on the circumstances, but i usually avoid tests until necessary to preserve my own sanity, so ts feels like a good fit to me.

TypeScript was definitely a pretty big learning curve... Forced to learn it, thought it was not worth the ROI, but eventually it all just sunk in and it wasn't a big deal anymore to use. I still think it adds more work and "clutter" to code than it provides benefit and that unit tests are a better time investment.

I break prod. | nkem.dev /learninpublic /true

not always applicable, but it's my preferred way of learning things :)

You understand TS by not understanding but using it anyway 🤣

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it's on my todo as well 👍 if you find a good resource, lmk :)

Always wanted to take a proper course to actually understand it and squeeze the possibilities

Me who doesn't understand much about it

Dev joke😅