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Re: Remove TypeScript

#21

Post by wrs »

Jcampuzano2 wrote: post #12

Regardless of if you like TS or not, merging this changeset without addressing a single concern/comment in less than 2 hours shows that obviously DHH doesn't give a shit about contributors. Not to mention adding 0 comments or written documentation in places where the types were literally the only documentation on what the arguments should have been. (For example string literal typed arguments ('on' | 'off'), places w…

I don’t know what to say except “DHH gonna be DHH”. Decades of experience shows this sort of thing is what you buy into when you build on 37signals code (which isn’t necessarily bad).

Re: Remove TypeScript

#22

Post by Jcampuzano2 »

Waterluvian wrote: post #3

After years of being resistant to “extra layers of complexity that slows me down” I adopted TS and now I can’t live without it. So as a fanboy, when I read things like this I try my darnedest to have empathy and try to understand it from their point of view. And I’m just really struggling to in this case. I get that it adds some complexity. But what are you actually getting without it? It’s not like types go away. Th…

Merging this PR honestly just seems like a 'political move' in terms of forcing their opinion about TS on everyone else as the "best decision".

If they actually cared they would have at least addressed the comments, and added written documentation/jsdoc comments in places where literally theres no way to know what is going on without the types that were given.

Re: Remove TypeScript

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Post by preommr »

> it's also freed of the type wrangling and gymnastics needed to please the TS compiler.

If you're fighting typescript that much, then what's the point?

The point of using things like types is correctness that can be statically checked. Imagine writing java (or any static typed lang) code where you just pass around a base class( e.g. "Object") and explicitly cast up to what you want, there'd be no point in using that language.

Re: Remove TypeScript

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Post by killthebuddha »

tasn wrote: post #11

> Fully recognize that TypeScript offers some people some advantages, but to my eyes, the benefits are evident in this PR. The code not only reads much better, it's also freed of the type wrangling and gymnastics needed to please the TS compiler. This is such a terrible take. The same could be said about removing tests. It does simplify things, and not having to please the damn test suite is indeed a boon for product…

Disclaimer: I agree with you.

Devil's Advocate: I actually can't, absolutely **** take.

Re: Remove TypeScript

#28

Post by maxcan »

> The fact is that I actually rather like JavaScript. I'd go so far as to say it's my second favorite language after Ruby.

Tells this haskeller / TSer everything I need to know.

Re: Remove TypeScript

#29

Post by sverhagen »

preommr wrote: post #23

> it's also freed of the type wrangling and gymnastics needed to please the TS compiler. If you're fighting typescript that much, then what's the point? The point of using things like types is correctness that can be statically checked. Imagine writing java (or any static typed lang) code where you just pass around a base class( e.g. "Object") and explicitly cast up to what you want, there'd be no point in using that…

I've worked in that place.

(And ran.)

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