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asa400last Friday at 1:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Couldn't agree more. And I actually kind of like Typescript, but man, typical Typescript projects are so verbose and sprawling, it's crazy.


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iLemminglast Friday at 4:40 PM

Not to mention that Clojurescript often emit safer code than Typescript does. Sounds insane and counter-intuitive, but here's the thing - Typescript actually removes all the type information from the emitted JS. Clojure, being strongly typed retains the strong typing guarantees in the compiled JS code. So all that enormous amount of effort required to deal with complex types, in practice feels like bringing kata choreography to a street fight - it's not utterly useless by itself, but hardly helping in a real fight-or-flight situation. You can impress the attacker with your beautiful dance and even prevent them from attacking you, but that's more like hope than a real strategy.