alt Hacker Newswhy are you against static types in languages?
I once converted a fairly large JS codebase to TS and I found about 200 mismatching names/properties all over the place. Tons of properties we had nulls suddenly started getting values.
why are you against static types in languages?
I once converted a fairly large JS codebase to TS and I found about 200 mismatching names/properties all over the place. Tons of properties we had nulls suddenly started getting values.
Sounds like this introduced behavior changes. How did you evaluate if the new behavior was desirable or not? I’ve definitely run into cases where the missing fields were load bearing in ways the types would not suggest, so I never take it for granted that type error in prod code = bug