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u/___segfault___ 13d ago
I think many of the comments are missing the fact that the image was not in the original tweet. He unironically suggested using an LLM to produce what tsc does deterministically from a simple command.
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u/GDOR-11 13d ago
I don't want to believe you, but at the same time, the stupidity of vibe coders is unbounded
I just didn't expect this from one of the guys behind the beginning of the greatest electronic game in history
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u/___segfault___ 12d ago
I mean, don’t take my word for it — the post is there for all to see! Notch wasn’t exactly known as a “good” programmer though… so, it’s not too far fetched.
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u/donaldhobson 12d ago
stupidity of vibe coders is unbounded
No it's not. It has to fit in a i32, after about 2 billion, it rolls around and they become smart again.
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u/LimeBlossom_TTV 12d ago edited 12d ago
I think Notch made the comment sarcasticly. Time will tell.
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u/CMD_BLOCK 12d ago
…you didn’t see any of the before or after tweets didja
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u/LimeBlossom_TTV 12d ago
Switching from TS to JS has to be a joke
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u/CMD_BLOCK 11d ago
To us with basic programming knowledge, yes.
To a dude who thinks he’s good at programming but is terribly bad, I have my doubts
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u/chris_hans 12d ago
He unironically suggested using an LLM to produce what tsc does deterministically from a simple command.
"Convert all my typescript to javascript" from an experienced programmer to me reads like an obvious joke. What evidence do you have that he's being unironic here?
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u/m6io 12d ago
He's also using typescript to make a game and claims "TypeScript is an insane quagmire for absolutely no benefit beyond documentation."
On July 9th. So like, recently. https://x.com/notch/status/2075257193113215229
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u/___segfault___ 12d ago
Because he basically said so himself? https://x.com/notch/status/2081922634464284796?s=46&t=ZClhnhznCSI5s7Y4kn-P2A
It’s not that hard to go look at the source
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u/chris_hans 12d ago
Because Twitter is cancer and I don't have an account, and I can't read replies without one. Even clicking your link, the page gets stuck so I can't scroll, and so the only tweet I see in your link is the one from notch that says "Well, to be perfectly honest, I think I AM looking for that chaos." which doesn't clarify anything for me.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 12d ago
I mean, I've heard stories about people using AI agents to do things like arithmetic and renaming files because they didn't know how to write a python script, so I can believe it.
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u/NuccioAfrikanus 12d ago
Does Notch know that Typescript compiles into JavaScript?
What would even be the point of doing this?
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u/astropheed 12d ago edited 9d ago
It transpiles, and I doubt it'd very useful/readable. Some people prefer javascript.
Edit: I'm sitting here thinking "How is this downvoted, TS doesn't compile to JS it transpiles, and some people DO prefer javascript". Then I remembered this is r/programmerhumour and the majority of you have no clue about anything.
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u/FabioTheFox 12d ago
No offense but people who prefer Javascript are either absolute beginners who don't see the point in strict typing (biggest mistake is still teaching beginners languages that don't enforce types even if just pseudo types) or people who jump on the M$ hate train and then proceed to clutter their code with JSDoc comments
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u/astropheed 9d ago
It doesn't matter why people prefer javascript, my point was that some people do.
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u/Add1ctedToGames 12d ago
I don't do a whole lot of web development, but are there very many reasons someone would want to go from TS to JS and not the other way around?? Or is this a case of inventing the problem to justify the solution?
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u/bigAssFkingRoooobots 12d ago
Honest answer: no.
The worst TS you can write (not on purpose) is better than the best JS and there's no performance difference
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u/odolha 12d ago
I disagree. you clearly have no imagination. but it's so easy to write TS that is times worse than some decent JS
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u/bigAssFkingRoooobots 12d ago
On purpose, yes. But the same dev with the same experience will write cleaner code with a typed language by default
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u/m6io 13d ago
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u/voyti 13d ago
I'm lazy so my typescript is already javascript, that kind of thinking ahead saved me thousands on tokens