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awesome to see a Blitz.js-built app on the front page :)

Then what do you do about the old version of the mutated object? There will still be references to it in other parts of your object model, which will now be out of date. I think th…

Similar to the other commenters, I find this comparison to be a bit unfair since TS is not a completely new programming language. Apart from that, Elm is a great language! I've bee…

When it comes to API responses you don't control, I recommend taking a look at user-defined type guards: https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/types/ty... Also, +1 on…

I see why you're missing an explanation on why classes should be avoided. In fact, your opinion is very similar to mine - I also think that, especially in the context of the FP-inf…

Correct me if I'm mistaken: I think you can indeed cast from HashMap to Animal and it will happily compile: ```java import java.util.HashMap; class Main { class Animal { String sou…

That's a very good point! Although I find the example to be rather exaggerated, I see how these types of errors can happen when you're dealing with very complex types. In the post,…

I'm with you on this. In my opinion, TypeScript can really get in your way when you develop in a way that's not TypeScript-friendly, but you'll benefit heavily once you start devel…