Aaron Planell

I’ve spent some time on a TypeScript-first codebase this week¹. I’ve now spent more time fighting against TS errors than actually writing out logic. In other words, I would have been twice as productive without it. Out of all these warnings, how many actually helped me fix real bugs? None. The original vision of TS was brilliant: Optional type hints that get you the benefits of type checking, without getting in the way when you don't need them. But at this point, TypeScript is no less painful than Java. ¹ No, that doesn’t mean my code is the wild west wrt typing. I prefer JSDoc + TS imports, which allow you to do truly optional typing and need no build tools.

How do rich people break eggs so elegant.