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14 points

Take a look at some typescript libraries and frameworks and you will see stuff like this. Completely unreadable mess.

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19 points

I have seen image recognition or text RPGs with type script types, but const ok:true = true as Grid< 4, 9, 2 Wtf

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3 points

note that it continues onto the next line

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6 points

Styled Components’ type system is one of the most impressive and most fucked up things I’ve ever had to dive into.

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5 points

For example?

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4 points

Not OP, and these examples are not unreadable, but they are a few steps up from your typical generics.

https://effect-ts.github.io/effect/effect/Unify.ts.html#unify

https://effect-ts.github.io/effect/effect/Pipeable.ts.html

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8 points

Creating basic functionality for the language always leads to unreadable code.

The C++ version would be much, much worse, and the Lisp version is Lisp.

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4 points

Right to jail. Right now.

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