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TS/Flow don't quite lose types "whenever" partial application or currying is involved, it's a bit more subtle than that and in many cases it works fine. But especially when using g…

No, that is exactly correct. The brunt of the argument applies to most popular languages- Java, Python, Ruby, and what have you- although the specifics vary.

You can get exhaustiveness checking in some cases in TS by adding a default statement to a switch and assigning the value to type 'never'. This is a bit cumbersome, of course, and …

Naming closures or functions absolutely is a good substitute for a large class of comments. When you write a comment as a function name, that comment gets maintained when the code …

Yes, it's fun. I wrote a wrapper for playing Screeps with PureScript and a blog post about it here: http://blog.ndk.io/purescript-ffi.html .

Are you referring to the Data Retention Directive [1], which was invalidated in 2014? Or are there still other EU-wide laws on data retention? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da…

Part of the issue is that legally in the U.S. a) privacy violations are usually punishable by law only if a specific non-privacy harm comes of it and b) privacy is treated as an in…

Which specific ones, for example? "Every one" could cover a lot of ground and doesn't have much information content. It's doubtful you have experience in every one, and it would be…

This is what makes me wonder, is there actually a steep age bias and drop-off of older developers or are we just living a demographics change? I'm guessing there are far more devel…

PureScript compile times have been quite good for me in the last two versions or so, so there has been some improvement there.

One area in which Flow may be "technically" sound but it feels illogical is how in how it infers certain types. TypeScript requires that a variable has one type that doesn't change…

I actually found the opposite was true in our project - TypeScript was easier to add into the code than Flow. The biggest reason for this was that Flow demands null/undefined check…

I admit the claim is overly grandiose, especially in this particular case where there's still a decent gap between core.async and CSPM. If one generated Haskell code directly from …

The go blocks in here are really ugly, but to be honest I just found it difficult to refactor in this particular case. The issues were a) I wanted all the events in a single event …

To clarify my statement: the idea of lean Clojure for making Clojure viable for Android development basically works. More static compilation of vars dramatically reduced startup ti…