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The hate towards TS is real and justified. (For context: I love TS and would use it almost every time). Most people get into TS at their job or another project. Its extremely easy (its the default basically) to create tsconfigs thats arent strict enough. Which causes developers to write any quickly and make TS useless. A good codebase has no anys at all, and if it needed some they were placed intentionally and not because the dev didn't know how to fix the error. And I don't see a good reason for codebases being too complex, it might be either that some dev pulled the "I'm smart" card and wrote complex types uneededly or that the dev experiencing the difficulty did not have experience using TS (properly). Most types in a codebase should be in the arguments of functions and .. thats it. And even if you know TS well and still run into issues that often that you hate it, its a sign that you write bad js code. Many js devs treat their variables as if they really were anys, moving with that mindset into TS is impossible and for good reason.
The shitty thing about TS is that its too easy to write badly so most people do (especially in teams).
If you have 1 cryptic type definition -> either bad code or you shouldn't touch it.
If you need to use any often because it would otherwise be too complex -> you either don't know typescript enough and overlook a simple solution or the way you write js code is questionable (which often happens to people who didnt learn/use any typed language)
If you think TS is complicated -> Yes, absolutely you are right. Its not even the syntax and errors that often become complex. The much harder part is to avoid these errors in the first place while writing code.
JS devs are frustrated with TS for the same reason C# devs are frustrated with JS. It makes no sense until you understand the why and no one teaches about the why.
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The hate towards TS is real and justified. (For context: I love TS and would use it almost every time). Most people get into TS at their job or another project. Its extremely easy (its the default basically) to create tsconfigs thats arent strict enough. Which causes developers to write any quickly and make TS useless. A good codebase has no anys at all, and if it needed some they were placed intentionally and not because the dev didn't know how to fix the error. And I don't see a good reason for codebases being too complex, it might be either that some dev pulled the "I'm smart" card and wrote complex types uneededly or that the dev experiencing the difficulty did not have experience using TS (properly). Most types in a codebase should be in the arguments of functions and .. thats it. And even if you know TS well and still run into issues that often that you hate it, its a sign that you write bad js code. Many js devs treat their variables as if they really were anys, moving with that mindset into TS is impossible and for good reason.
The shitty thing about TS is that its too easy to write badly so most people do (especially in teams).
JS devs are frustrated with TS for the same reason C# devs are frustrated with JS. It makes no sense until you understand the why and no one teaches about the why.