alt Hacker News> ... slapping TypeScript on everything—even CSS—which is overkill
Yikes, this framework will never fare well in any decent sized or above project.
Even Typescript is problematic sometimes, as it has several forms of coercion.
I manage 2 large scale production apps using Typescript (Along with the rest of the infrastructure) with a small team.
This simply would not be possible, had I not been guaranteed that things at least type check when reading diffs from PRs.
This is a silly take. There were certainly plenty of large projects written in JS before Typescript existed or became popular, some maintained by small teams or single individuals. There are plenty of large projects written in Python pre-typing, in PHP, etc.
I personally choose to work with typed languages most of the time, and I’m thoroughly convinced of their value, but acting like it is literally impossible to write a large project without types is just inaccurate.