Boy this really doesn’t help SF’s image. Glad they’re okay, though. As a local, and like the article mentions, I feel embarrassed and somehow responsible for stuff like this. It’s so sad to me that they came here with an open mind to see what SF is really like and this happens.
Do you have multiple people collaborating with you? If I’m writing code that only I need to understand then yes, typescript may be overkill (though I prefer types even then), but working on any meaningful codebase without types is… challenging. Types aren’t that hard are they?
Well that’s certainly a hot take. I’d say TypeScript is the best thing to happen to JS, but that’s just my opinion. It’s not perfect, but it makes working on a large codebase tolerable. To each their own.