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Discussion on: Downsides of TypeScript?

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Downsides off the top of my head:

  • Strong typing
  • More ludicrous tooling
  • Promotes a tendency to over-engineer stuff
  • Restricts creativity

Yes, I'm a huge fan 😀

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Rammina

Strong typing can be an advantage.

How would you say it causes a tendency to over-engineer stuff?

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Some may disagree, but my favorite thing to like, is as; or even as unknown as.

Real static typed languages can't even do this.

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Rammina

Oh yeah! as is a really nice addition that Typescript has.

Off-topic: Cute Homura pfp