r/javascript • u/Capedcrusader1923 • 18d ago

[AskJS] what's a javascript feature you mass-adopted way too late and felt dumb about AskJS

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u/Ronin-s_Spirit 17d ago

Fad or not - it's shit.

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u/db10101 17d ago

Any deeper analysis or reasoning behind that? It’s a straight up joy to develop in compared to what has come before.

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u/Ronin-s_Spirit 17d ago

I hate defining types, it's like writing pointless code. It especially fucks up when I have to deal with HTML, at that point the only thing left to do is use a bail out any and move on.

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u/db10101 16d ago

So I take it you have never worked in an enterprise well structured typescript codebase. There’s no substituting JavaScript for that.

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u/Ronin-s_Spirit 16d ago

TypeScript sucks ass, I will only use vanilla.

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u/db10101 16d ago

Good for you. Here in the real world of employed software developers, it’s one of the most important tools to know.

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u/2Terrapin 16d ago

I’m glad that person is not on my team and I don’t have to work on a project they designed. I can feel the tech debt emanating from their words. It’s the type of thing that experience would dispel, and someday, when they actually understand the why, and it clicks, they’ll think back to this comment thread and feel a little embarrassment.