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Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional? (feddit.dk)

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I was talking to my manager the other day, discussing the languages we are using at $dayjob. He kind of offhandedly said that he thinks TypeScript is a temporary fad and soon everything will go back to using JavaScript. He doesn't like that it's made by Microsoft either.

I'm not a frontend developer so I don't really know, but my general impression is that everything is moving more and more towards TypeScript, not away from it. But maybe I'm wrong?

Does anyone who actually works with TypeScript have any impression about this?

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[–] AlecSadler 12 points 8 months ago

In a small company with a non-complex product, there is a chance that TS creates more slowdowns than not.

In a large company with multiple cooks in the kitchen and a complex product, I'm personally of the mindset that there is substantial gain from typescript. I've had coworkers tell me it's bullshit, and then I do the smallest lift possible to convert and the amount of bugs it reveals are insane.

Is it necessary? No, probably not. But unless everyone's a 10/10 dev working on the world's simplest product, why not just do it and enjoy the benefits?

INB4 JavaScript blahblah, yeah I've added type hints to pure JS projects too and discovered bugs. At this point I don't get it. Typical resistance I get is that it's too prescriptive and lacks JS's dynamic nature - well, fuck off, I don't want to read through 200+ lines of code where you're changing types and shit on me willy-nilly.