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Discussion on: The Trouble with TypeScript

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Brian Williams • Edited

"However, on the frontend, it has been nearly a disaster. "

I agree, the absolute mess I have seen people make with typescript is almost unprecedented. Its power is part of the problem. Its inherently high SNR is another.

I think you are right that it's mostly front end developers because I don't think a lot of them have had to develop some of the formal disciplines other types of developers have (not a rule just a general observation as I remember sifting through pages of mostly unnecessary thousand line files)

It feels like it's not particularly well curated with regards to style choices but I feel that is becoming normal in programming.

More and more people with very little aesthetic understanding are getting into programming. It's just a numbers game. You throw more people in and the people with a relatively rare aesthetic understanding will become more and more marginalised and the majorities influence more pervasive.

It seems like a trend to often happily trade legibility for terseness. Simplicity for often unnecessary complexity.

I cannot wait for the trend to fall back to the other side because it is getting absurd.