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Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said
TypeScript A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
On the topicDo static types make software better?under our view: The evidence that types prevent bugs is thin, and dynamic languages ship fine
TypeScript just gets in the way of that for me. Not just because it requires an explicit compile step, but because it pollutes the code with type gymnastics that add ever so little joy to my development experience, and quite frequently considerable grief.
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I hold this tooCannot both be true
Mulroy says that if you can use Effect for TypeScript you should, to the point of not starting a new project without it. Hansson says TypeScript’s annotations cost more in friction than they return in safety and that a front-end framework is better off in plain JavaScript. One would not start without the heavier type machinery and the other would not start with it.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.