Comment on the myth of type safety

Lowpast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zangoose@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If I had the willpower or time to go through a multi-thousand line (not including the html templates) legacy Angular 6 codebase where almost every property is typed ‘any’ then I assure you I would have, it’s driving me insane 🙃, also why I prefer backend

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  • 0xSim@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The boy scout technique: fix your types when you're working on a bug or a feature, one file at a time. Also try to use unknown instead of any for more sensitive parts, it will force you to typecheck.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The fuck the lemons technique: resign and seek an employer that didn’t fail at the most basic level of engineering management and development culture for years and years — because life is short and we’re all running out of time… always.

      When life hands you lemons, just say fuck the lemons and bail

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      • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So basically change careers

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      • Hupf@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        combustible lemon

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  • roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I kinda feel your pain. A project that I helped launch is written in Typescript technically, but the actual on-the-ground developers were averse to using type safety, so any is used everywhere. So, it becomes worst of both worlds, and the code is a mess (I don’t have authority in the project anymore, and wouldn’t touch it even if I could).

    I’m also annoyed at some level because some of the devs are pretty junior, and I fear they are going to go forward thinking Typescript or type safety in general is bad, which hurts my type-safety-loving-soul

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    • Zangoose@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In theory I’m a fan of the inferred but static typing systems that most modern languages use (kotlin, rust, TS, etc.) where most local variable types can be inferred and only return types/object fields/parameters need explicit types.

      I just despise typescript because it feels more like someone put a bandaid over JavaScript and all of its oddities instead of making a properly fleshed out language, and allowing the option for an ‘any’ type to be used freely by default emphasizes that.

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      • Zikeji@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Based on your description it sounds like you haven’t given it a fair shake. I’ll take TS over JS any day, at least there is room for improvement. I will say however I personally haven’t been unlucky enough to run into projects that abuse the any type. The worst I’ve run into is a JS library with no typings I have to manually type.

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      • Traister101@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        TypeScript is JavaScript and not in the literal it’s compiled to JS sense but in the think of TS as a linter not a language sense.

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    • Lowpast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One file at a time. Make strong pre-commit eslint rules (that way you don’t impact existing code), eventually update tsconfig. You’ll get there :)

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  • walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Print the code out and burn it

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