I prefer JavaScript personally, but it’s time to acknowledge that TypeScript has won. If you want to contribute and succeed as a developer in the JS ecosystem, you need to learn TS, like it or not.
If js docs are a good working replacement then I can understand wanting to avoid all the annoying issues with typescript. I haven’t used it before but it seems less flexible and more verbose, what’s other people’s experience with it? I’d have to check it out myself but for the moment typescript makes JavaScript a little more bearable.
Javascript is a standard, typescript is not. You’re at their whims if they ever want to change anything, break anything etc. If typing would get introduced in JavaScript, I would be on that instantly. But for now, I’d rather not touch typescript
I have ADHD and I’ll often find myself spending hours trying to find a fix, finally read the docs, get distracted, go back to finding a fix without the docs, remember that I was in the middle of reading a docs, and repeat
I usually get distracted reading one of the different APIs in the documentation and went down on a rabbit hole reading the whole history of some totally unrelated thing that just popped into my head and then realized what I had to do when I was going to bed and I ended up working thru the night.
The other times I got stuck for a couple of hours looking for new themes for my code editor because I didn’t like how my current theme looked.
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