alt Hacker NewsI think TypeScript can feel like there's too many gaps because not enough people take it seriously enough to truly learn it. Hardly anyone reads a book about best practices/design the way many do about C/Java/Rust.
It's actually a very powerful tool when used thoughtfully. Although it wasn't the first structurally typed language I tried, it's the one that made me fall in love with structural type systems
I like the strutural typing as well. But I hesitate to use TypeScript because AI tells me this:
It Catches: Mismatched function arguments, missing object properties, and typos in variable names.
It Misses: Invalid JSON from an API, unexpected database outputs, and bad user input.