I completely agree with this. It's maddening to hear everyone wax lyrical about the benefits of typescript when I see non at all, after you balance the benefits of type safety against all the flaws inherent to typescript itself.
You used the word "arrogance", and that's exactly what it is. The fact that it's a transpiler (and a poor one at that) makes no sense to me. It's reach exceeds it's grasp and it burdens developers with the task of fixing it's own failings.
Before anyone says "you just don't like typed language", stop right there. I do like Typed languages. Typescript is just very very poor when compared to other modern typed languages.
It's such a horrible development experience that I'm looking for a way out of web dev. It's clear the community has gone nuts for it. And the Java back enders who seem to have an unwarranted amount of influence in this world are forcing it onto front end developers simply because it looks like Java. And damn you Angular2 for making all of this worse. You're a clunky and bloated framework already, but not content with ramming your flawed methodology down our throats, you've gone and stuck Typescript in there too, seemingly just out of spite.
I fear Typescript is here to stay. If that's the case, I'm moving to Swift and iOS, or changing career completely.
You used the word "arrogance", and that's exactly what it is. The fact that it's a transpiler (and a poor one at that) makes no sense to me. It's reach exceeds it's grasp and it burdens developers with the task of fixing it's own failings.
Before anyone says "you just don't like typed language", stop right there. I do like Typed languages. Typescript is just very very poor when compared to other modern typed languages.
It's such a horrible development experience that I'm looking for a way out of web dev. It's clear the community has gone nuts for it. And the Java back enders who seem to have an unwarranted amount of influence in this world are forcing it onto front end developers simply because it looks like Java. And damn you Angular2 for making all of this worse. You're a clunky and bloated framework already, but not content with ramming your flawed methodology down our throats, you've gone and stuck Typescript in there too, seemingly just out of spite.
I fear Typescript is here to stay. If that's the case, I'm moving to Swift and iOS, or changing career completely.