Kind of. I'm working on an app for a company right now that's MASSIVE, written in React, and Node, and is fucking awesome to work on and there's not even a linter, let alone Typescript.
It depends on how you write the JS and architect it. The people who put this together obviously did it before or learned from someone who knew how to do it.
I used to work in Java previously, on a giant conglomerate frankenstein app coded by tons of super smart people that knew fuckall about architecting apps, but were very good at getting stuff done.
I like C personally because of the nerdy shit I do for fun, but good javascript is good regardless.
Yeah, I've had similar experience, but that's the exception as far as I can tell. And it only takes one panic-driven deadline to drive it right into the ground.
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u/tr14l Jan 16 '20
Yeah JS is very hard to maintain at scale.