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"What Dynamic Typing Is For" by Alexander Petros https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/what-dynamic-typing-is-for/
This is a great defense of untyped JavaScript as a glue language. Not many folks think enough about debuggability or "obvious"-ness when designing resilient systems.
I've been a big TypeScript hater in the past, but I have to admit it works well when JavaScript is the _only_ language you're dealing with. You get to just turn off your brain and let the type checker find all the undefineds, nulls, etc. But as soon as you have to convert to and from HTML/CSS/SQL it definitely becomes a big pain.
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@nolan Not a problem if you're just writing JSX.
@nolan even the DOM isn't too bad if you have #TypeScript 's `lib` set as expected: https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#lib
The default annotations for `JSON.parse()`, `fetch()` say they return `any`, and really any place marked as `any` (or using human-thinks-they-know-best `as MyType` coercions) tends to me what trips me up in practice
I'd love a "greenfield" setting that removes `any` and untyped JavaScript support from TypeScript completely, forcing me to do runtime type-checks instead of making false assumptions
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