By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I’ve seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I’ve never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years. So it’s with great pleasure that I can announce we’re dropping TypeScript from the next big release of Turbo 8.
Honestly, having used both extensively at different points for years I can say that I understand his approach for smaller projects, but Typescript coupled with coding standards, makes working with large teams and large code bases 1000x better. Being able to immediately know what data is being passed where at a glance is invaluable.
I hope I never have to work with this person. What a shit take.
There’s likely a lot of reasons one wouldn’t want to work with DHH. It’s unfortunate because he is clearly really brilliant but seemingly fails to realize that a huge amount of software engineering involves working together with other people, many of whom aren’t that brilliant.
I think the best take on this is from Rich Harris at Svelte. They are dropping it for internal Dev because they get the same feature set from JSDoc and have no build step, but they keep it for Svelte users who want TS.
Fuck DHH. Fuck his shitty racist blog posts that he inter mixes with inflammatory bullshit that he does to the rails community.
Rails needs him gone desperately
Cool, Typescript is basically useless.