Hacker News post about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39309783 (source available)
But C is worse than C++, because what if you have a pointer to a pointer?
Man these programmers are getting unhinged. Even I can’t read this shit.
Show that to your niece and nephew and you’ll be a certified Haxxor™
This doesn’t actually read as serious TypeScript, moreso as someone trying to showcase unhinged code.
I’d be happy to be proven wrong with a link to the source code so that I can look the beast in the eye.
Take a look at some typescript libraries and frameworks and you will see stuff like this. Completely unreadable mess.
I have seen image recognition or text RPGs with type script types, but
const ok:true = true as Grid< 4, 9, 2
Wtf
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
If TypeScript didn’t have terrible type-level ergonomics, this wouldn’t look so bad—even if this toy example is largely just a brain exercise
