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They should also remove tests from the projects as well. Such a burden on the developer to write test and worry about how to test when they just need to focus on implementing the logic.

Very few programmers are typically interested in having their opinion on writing test changed. Most programmers find themselves drawn strongly to testing or not quite early in their career, and then spend the rest of it rationalizing The Correct Choice to themselves and others.




Tests are literally type replacement in dynamic languages, only controlled. It's always mentally easier to do what you are forced to instead of writing tests consciously. That is how the other side is looking at people who tell everyone that there is no coding without typing. People who surrender "think more, do less", instead doing more and thinking less - More is less sounds disgusting to me.

A big part of development is prototyping, it sucks so much to use a language that doesn't support efficient prototyping. And no, jumping from Typescript concepts/style to pure Javascript is not an efficient solution, you have limited space in your brain.

I can continue, literally all Typescript code is horrible legacy in the making. In the future people would hate it is so much that comments like this would look ridiculous, remember my words.


Prototyping is fun but over fast - most programs spend much more time in the "maintenance" phase. Code is generally read more than it's written. Types make all that boring stuff safer and easier!




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