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What's going on with typescript?
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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In my experience, that means they're doing it wrong.
I find that Typescript adds a lot of joy to my development experience. And I haven't need any "gymnastics" since I invested in learning Typescript.
How even dare you. PR denied.
I would say sorry, English isn't my first language but that would be a lie 😬
Same, but I come from a C++ background so strong typing is in my blood. This sounds like people who write bad code complaining because the language/transpiler won’t let them write bad code.
That doesn't seem a fair assessment at all. In strongly typed languages the types are part of the base syntax and usually not onerous, but rather straightforward to write. In TypeScript they're tacked on in a way that makes quite a lot of work for developers while also making the code difficult to read and reason about (although good syntax highlighting certainly helps.)
I don't do java- or typescript but that guy's comment definitely translates as "I want to keep on writing messy code and you can't force me to learn to clean my shit up".
I've heard it's more of a problem on the library side. But I've personally had pains with ts when working with quirky features such as enums or discriminating unions. Part of the problem in my opinion is that the types all disappear at runtime, so you lose a lot of the joy of a statically typed language. For example, an API can pass you unexpected garbage and all your ts type wrangling helps not at all.
Well yes, if you don't take care of properly typing external data, you won't have it properly recognised. But that's the same in any language that e.g. consumes external JSON data. Use the tools that Typescript gives you (like type guards) or the tools the community has built (like io-ts).
For your API issue, have you tried using type guards or something more sophisticated like Zod?