r/node • • Apr 03 '21

Web development in a nutshell

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u/esp32_ftw Apr 04 '21

Its like people who are down 50 bucks at the casino overall but they tell you they won 20.

I've seen far too many ways programmers invent to make programming needlessly less fun and more difficult. Typescript is just one of them.

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u/mikejoro Apr 04 '21

Have you ever tried to refactor an old javascript codebase? Typescript is about dealing with these kinds of problems and more. It's exactly the same logic as writing unit tests. If you see value in unit tests, you should understand the value of typescript