A few days ago, David Heinemeier Hansson announced that Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript . I'm okay with that because I don't even know what Turbo 8 is. However, over the past few years, some frontend programmers have tried to sell me the idea that "TypeScript is useless, just use tests". I think people with such opinions either don't care about code quality or simply don't know what TypeScript is. Here, I will explain why you should use TypeScript.
  • MrGG@lemmy.ca
    30·
    1 year ago

    Expect to see more posts like this. With a few projects announcing they’re dropping support for TypeScript we’re going to have developers worrying that this tech that they’ve sunk so much time into is suddenly becoming obsolete, so they’re going to evangelise hard in favour of it as a defence strategy. Same thing happened when Perl went out of flavour.

    • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
      14·
      1 year ago

      Only a few libraries announced dropping support due to their requirement generics. It’s not that big a deal. TS is still popular.

      • MrGG@lemmy.ca
        8·
        1 year ago

        I said a few, friend 😛 I agree it’s not a big deal, but for developers that are totally entrenched in that ecosystem it might be alarming. Hence OP’s post.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen so many front-end libraries come and go over the 25 years I’ve been doing this. Be good at programming in general, and you can usually hop on board the incoming train pretty easily and hop off again before it goes off a cliff. You can’t really get too attached to anything in an ever changing industry.