To be perfectly frank, I’ve only seen the drama on social media platforms. Outside of this one library Ive hardly seen anyone trying to fight typescript in the professional community.
I’m still using CommonJS and occasionally ESM, but I always get to integrate JSDoc for weak typing in IntelliSense. It’s like getting the (almost) juiciest part from Typescript without committing to it
How can you even form an opinion on this if, as you stated in that thread, you literally have no idea what typescript is and are just a beginner in js? You got down voted for saying typescript is unnecessary without even knowing what it is or what the thing you’re working with’s limitations are, which is a pretty objectively braindead stance to take. You’re a beginner js developer, you have no idea what you’re talking about when it comes to preferences of ts vs js, just that all of the beginner level stuff you have tried to do works in js so therefore typescript or frameworks must be unnecessary
if you’re a beginner, and you post an opinion and lots of people say that many years of professional experience make them disagree with you, why would you not take that on board? I wish you well on your learning journey. at some point you’ll outgrow vanilla js and you’ll have learned enough to configure transpilation and webpack etc. it’ll be a good day.
The fact that you're doubling down on your ignorance is quite problematic. Typescript is not an enterprise system that forms arcane JS. It's literally JS with a slight adjustment that allows you to say "also this is this type". You write JS the entire time and can "disable" the typescript at any location you need to not be typed.
After this and saying that you’re a beginner to JS, I would instead suggest spending time to develop perspective from a place of knowledge and experience rather than… I guess, being proudly ignorant?
Is it even going to matter in the next 3-5 years? AI is going to make its own, kore efficient language and all the ones we use will be for hobby, fun and those who did not adapt.
I agree with you, but writing human readable code will become a cottage craft and hobby as while it is good to know, AI will just be so much faster and better that coding anything yourself will make little business sense. I am already writing way less code, especially with the 100k token windows over on Poe.com which seems to handle most of my script sizes.
This might handle scripts as you described, but just wait until it needs the context of random bits of a tens-of-millions-of-lines monorepo plus knowledge of custom infrastructure that isn’t documented anywhere and–oh wait, we can’t actually let this LLM-as-a-service read our code because X and Y compliance/security/legal/etc, even if we ran it on-prem.
The robots aren’t coming for you so soon, don’t worry.
I think you are right if the progress on AI is linear, but if it continues to be exponential, nothing you said, even undocumented is going to be a barrier. That assumes AGI is coming and is as smart as the smartest people. We will see, but my money is on the progress surprising everyone. I am surprised by how much AI has improved over the last 6 months alone.
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