I continue to be baffled and amused by the complete meltdown of the typescript community over the actions of a single man on a single package. The only people who have legitimate gripes are those that had been actively contributing and whose work was erased. The rest of you are acting absurdly childish. The anger and vitriol being thrown at anyone who disagrees on how to write javascript would make me embarrassed if I was associated or involved in the ts community.
Ootl, what’s going on? I haven’t read anything
Start here https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/972 and then https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/973
Tldr someone moved a popular repo from typescript to JavaScript, the negative response was quite overwhelming.
The fact is that I actually rather like JavaScript. I’d go so far as to say it’s my second favorite language after Ruby. Yes, a distant second, but a second none the less. This wasn’t always the case. But after we got proper classes in JavaScript, and all the other improvements that flowed since ES6, it’s become a real joy to write.
Is it just me or is the tone here unnecessarily aggressive?
(Read the PR to understand)
Cheers
It started here: https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-70165c01
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Maybe DHH influential and many will follow in his footsteps
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Yeah, hopefully. Because walking around in a foreign country without any kind of navigation is a pure joy.
When I saw “dhh” on the post about this turbo decision that said it all really. Dhh is a tool.
Care to clue me in? I spend my time far, far away from the web dev sphere :p
He became a patron saint because he developed Rails, and he huffed too many of his own farts. His track record can be boiled down to thinking he knows what’s best and the evidence is damning
- https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-70165c01 The decision that made the spaghetti flow out of our collective pockets
- https://janeyang.org/2021/04/27/an-open-letter-to-jason-and-david/
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-political-speech-policy-controversy
- https://tomstu.art/the-dhh-problem
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnmZhXWohP0&t=430s&pp=ygUJZGhoIHJhaWxz
- https://thenewstack.io/railsconf-and-dhh-go-their-separate-ways/
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
huh. what was the rationale for removing it in the first place? seems like a waste to throw away a whole codebase worth of perfectly good type annotations
shitposting
No rationale provided.
Repo?
It was for turbo
Got a few minutes into the context video before I head to close it. Do people actually enjoy YouTubers presenting stuff in this manner?
Yes I do.
Found him when learning vim and watched a few of his twitch streams. Quite enjoy his takes on things. Not the biggest fan of this new reaction content but do occasionally watch ones related to the tech I use for the day job
Yeah, sometimes it’s too over the top. But he has some thoughts that are kind of refreshing to hear in this Twitter driven development world.
Do we now have “influencer programmers” now? 🤣
We always have had em, they’re just on YouTube now too 😂
Huh… now that you mention it, I guess that’s what people like Bob Martin and mpj (along many others of course) might classify as. Would any guru fall under this category?
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I still dont get it why they remove ts??? its dumb in many ways.
Is strange… In the video I linked, he said it apparently broke some repos. He also said that they could have at the very least added in jsdoc comments to keep types without requiring extra tooling.
ok.
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I’d reject anything from Theo too tbh
shots fired
more like t -3
#971 is correct
Ts is shit, just use js they even want to add types to vanilla js
There is a reason types exists…
So, they want to incorporate TypeScript into vanilla JS?
No. They want to add syntax which allows browsers to parse typed code, but it would just be ignored - the type checking would still have to be done by e.g. Typescript.
