I have a rather funny story about Typescript from ~4 years ago. I joined a team that had, amongst other things, an Node-Express.js and React-redux stack, all in vanilla Javascript.
I was a bit younger and bolder then; I lamented with the lead developer about how vanilla JS was probably not a good idea for what was to be a large enterprise platform. The response I got back was probably what you would expect from a senior developer receiving criticism from a rather newly minted developer: Oh i've tried Typescript, but it's just SO VERBOSE. I feel like I can't get ANYTHING done, etc. etc. etc.
I've personally been all in on TS from close to day one - around 2013 when I started some very early web development (hooray for the AngularJS/Angular days! /s). It somewhat scratches my ego and has been rather interesting to see the developer mindset change, particularly that of vanilla JS developers of old. Response like ones I had have gone from often negative, complaining about verbosity and I guess frustration with anything different from what they are used to, to overwhelmingly positive. Old guards join us, or fade away, I suppose.
I was a bit younger and bolder then; I lamented with the lead developer about how vanilla JS was probably not a good idea for what was to be a large enterprise platform. The response I got back was probably what you would expect from a senior developer receiving criticism from a rather newly minted developer: Oh i've tried Typescript, but it's just SO VERBOSE. I feel like I can't get ANYTHING done, etc. etc. etc.
I've personally been all in on TS from close to day one - around 2013 when I started some very early web development (hooray for the AngularJS/Angular days! /s). It somewhat scratches my ego and has been rather interesting to see the developer mindset change, particularly that of vanilla JS developers of old. Response like ones I had have gone from often negative, complaining about verbosity and I guess frustration with anything different from what they are used to, to overwhelmingly positive. Old guards join us, or fade away, I suppose.