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TS is great but lack of pattern matching cripples the language somewhat
It helps that is has good smart-casting, you can do with an if where other languages need pattern matching const x: { t: 'A', foo: string } | { t: 'B', bar: string } = /*...*/ return x.t === 'A' ? x.foo : x.bar
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I totally agree. I love the direction of Scala 3. This quote says it all I think: "Scala 3 takes a slightly different approach [from Scala 2] and focuses on intent rather than mechanism. Instead of offering one very powerful feature, Scala 3 offers multiple tailored language features, allowing programmers to directly express their intent" So rather than something like implicits, that can be used N different ways, onl…
I always felt like implicits were a weaker design in the language, glad to see they put some more thought behind it.