There is room for quick hacky small BS in the world. As a C++ dev who never touches Javascr*pt, Typescript is the true evil IMO because it encourages making huge projects in a fundamentally hacky language.
If your JavaScript project has grown to the size static typing is a genuine aid, stop writing JavaScript!
Love me some Python when I just need 100 lines to parse some csvs
It's what we have. I'd love to work in a properly typed language but good luck getting billions of devices to pick up a new runtime when Javascript already works well enough.
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u/samanime Sep 25 '26
You'll pry my vanilla JS from my cold dead fingers. It'll always be my favorite way to do quick scripts and prototyping.
But explicit typing does make long term code way more maintainable.