> TypeScript slows down a project. Nobody seems to ever point out what benefits it supposedly offers.
Types slow you down a bit at the start, but speed you up forever after that. Untyped projects are fast to whip out, but slow piles of undefined behavior forever on. Oh and add unit tests, without types, and all you have is a checksum.
> And I think it's only popular because of the influx of backend developers coming into the frontend.
Types slow you down a bit at the start, but speed you up forever after that. Untyped projects are fast to whip out, but slow piles of undefined behavior forever on. Oh and add unit tests, without types, and all you have is a checksum.
> And I think it's only popular because of the influx of backend developers coming into the frontend.
That's not the only reason why it's popular.