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Discussion on: TypeScript is a waste of time. Change my mind.

 
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Yawar Amin

using static type is just the easiest thing in programming ever.

So it's really easy and it can be helpful ... I don't get it, in that case what's your argument against it?

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Quan Le

Did I say it can be helpful? Maybe, for people who cant determine what type of variable he is looking at. But for me, and the author of this article, TS is doing more harm than good. And it is like a pain in the ass using TS every day

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Yawar Amin

Ha ha, OK, best of luck to you as you are obviously a programming superstar who doesn't need any help from a typechecker.

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Quan Le

Yeah, sorry if I sound like a jerk, but I had my years with static typing already. At first things are super nice, but then shortcomings start to appear, and now, it totally outweighed the good stuffs.

So yes, typechecking does help here and there, but the tradeoffs are far too big for me. So, no thanks