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Nvm. ESxx is already waaaay too bloated, and Typescript only adds to that. All those new features are only adding complexity, pain and bugs. I'm curious when we arrive at the point when it's less painful to write a web app in C, it feels we're getting quite close already!

I try to keep my codebase as simple as possible with Coffeescript, doing dynamic type checking with types.js. Honestly very rare to see a type related bug in my codebases.

For all those ESxx and Typescript proponents out there: You don't need it. It doesn't make your life easier at all. In the Javascript domain I wind down as much as possible on the endless libs and tools to keep my codebase readable and my mind healthy.



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