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0 pointsjimmychoozyx2y ago0 comments

Nah twas not I.

While working with TS in VS Code, I liked the intellisense of TypeScript + VSCode... it was able to piece itself together better than vanilla JS-- it predicted which objects, functions, or files I would reference quite well. So, I'll give it that.

I totally see a reason for it in the corporate realm of developer churn and in the vein of keeping projects very structured and stable. I might give it another go eventually.

For my own projects where I try to keep mental overhead low, and reduce focus on anything over than the main business logic, I prefer plain JS (e.g. within an ExpressJS or ReactJS project)

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joshxyz2y ago

you're right i hate the damn overhead too.

i despised typescript for years until i tried it again recently. these days the developer tools are better.

prettier now formats it very well. eslint now lints it very well. tsx and ts-node now lets me run my ts files without compile step to js before i can run it with node. on frontend, vitejs has templates for react with typescript projects.

im a performance freak too, i currently use uwebsockets.js instead of express/fastify/hapi/koa. i wrote my own redis client instead of node-redis and ioredis. i fucking hate overhead too, haha.

i think my strongest preference on typescript stems from my frustration on very large projects. say thousands of commits every month, at that scale typescript really helps a lot in catching bugs before we even run our code.

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