Here's my take as TS dev. You just never learned to use types in the first place where there is very little ambiguity on any types anywhere because there is close to no any's used. Sounds like you guys get high and mighty on your tunnel-visioned copium—I mean I used to write JS for god's sake and thought it was okay. And I remember when I first tried TS felt annoyingly hampered by having to actually use interfaces properly.
Sure, the nature of Elixir probably makes it easier but I find little joy in dynamic whack-a-mole and mental gymnastics to infer types instead of fricking actually being able to see them immediately.
I could go commando in TS as well and switch to JS and JSDoc, leaving everything gradually typed and probably be fine but I'd feel terribly sorry for anyone else reading that code afterwards. It'd be especially silly since I can now just infer my auto-generated Postgres zod schemas with little effort. Moreover, a good type system basically eliminates typing-related bugs which you guys apparently still have.
So please, don't over-generalize just because you think you got it figured out.
Lmao. This has to be the funniest comment I’ve ever read on here. I can assure you, the only copium being huffed is by you, mate. I have written Scala, Swift, Java, and more (including TypeScript). I have zero trouble with type systems, but I have wasted enough time fighting them for little real world benefit. In Elixir, and this is the best part, I don’t fight type bugs. You probably do because type erasure means you can still have them if someone has mistyped something or shit on something at runtime— the joys of JavaScript.
It sounds like you’re really trying to justify something and that’s great for you. I’m really happy for you. Keep it up. May you soar where no junior dev has dared to soar before. God speed.
Hah. Sure buddy, Mr. Sr Dev. Sorry if I offended you and your vast experience. Without types there definitely aren't type bugs, I grant you that, and JVM languages are quite different to TS. I don't know if your argument on type erasure is any better than advocating for dynamic typing but it definitely happens when you just start throwing anys.
And look, I'm first to admit that TS type system isn't perfect (and it can cause some devs to go overboard) but I have read my share of Python scripts that were read-only from the minute they were born.
It sounds like you’re really trying to justify something and that’s great for you. I’m really happy for you. Keep it up. May you soar where no junior dev has dared to soar before. God speed.
And please, your condescension just sounds insecurity to me. It's highly amusing though that you try to play me down as a silly junior dev, I'm quite satisfied that my original assessment was correct.
Sure, the nature of Elixir probably makes it easier but I find little joy in dynamic whack-a-mole and mental gymnastics to infer types instead of fricking actually being able to see them immediately.
I could go commando in TS as well and switch to JS and JSDoc, leaving everything gradually typed and probably be fine but I'd feel terribly sorry for anyone else reading that code afterwards. It'd be especially silly since I can now just infer my auto-generated Postgres zod schemas with little effort. Moreover, a good type system basically eliminates typing-related bugs which you guys apparently still have.
So please, don't over-generalize just because you think you got it figured out.