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Comment by ragnese

TypeScript is awful. Like, I shit on Java all the time, and I WAY rather work in Java than TypeScript.

TypeScript's type system is so utterly broken that I honestly don't know if my code is ANY more robust than if I had written it in JavaScript.

Record<> is broken/unsound: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/45335

Generics are wonky and sometimes wrong: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/31006

The `readonly` keyword does absolutely nothing: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/13347

Arrays are covariant in their type param, so I can pass a `Dog[]` into a function that accepts `Animal[]`. If that function adds a `Cat` to the passed array, the compiler is perfectly happy, but we'll see a runtime error.

TypeScript is actually so bad that it might have honestly made JavaScript worse, if that's even possible.

parent ragnese 5 years ago

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