Programmer Humor

Well, yes. TypeScript mitigates one big problem with JavaScript (type safety). That’s why it exists. It’s a dumb idea to choose vanilla JS over TS if you’re starting a new project today, IMO.

Whether or not you should use TS as your core language is debatable and situational, but in terms of using TS instead of JS, yeah, that’s a no brainer.

According to all teams I've worked on.

Pretty fucking hard.

I know this is satire, But really though better languages that make various classes of defects unrepresentable reduce defects. It's wild that such a statement needs to be made, but our industry is filled with folks who don't critically think about decisions like these.

If I don't have documentation or defined features, then I can't do bugs!

Like the age old advice for getting better at Smash Brothers - Don't get hit.

Maybe, but always remember LLMs are trained on real people. Some people naturally use similar styles to some LLM tica as it was stolen from them in the first place.

Don't just state—regurgitate!

Yeah, particularly the broadcasting really irks me.
That is an opinion you can hold for yourself and then make compromises as you encounter reality. I do expect programmers to hold strong opinions.

But when you broadcast it, you strip yourself of the option to make compromises. You're just saying something which is going to be wrong in one way or another in most situations. I do expect programmers to be smarter than that.

Even if your code is flawless it still isn’t safe because all it takes is a single flawed line of code.

If there is a single flawed line of code, the code isn't flawless.

let you build faster like Python

I have to write so much boilerplate code to make sure my objects are of the correct type and have the required attributes! Every time I write an extension for Blender that uses context access, I have to make sure that the context is correct, that the context has the proper accessor attributes (which may not be present in some contexts), that the active datablock is not None, that the active datablock's data type (with respect to Blender, not Python) is correct, that the active datablock's data is not None... either all that or let the exception fall through the stack and catch it at the last moment with a bare except and a generic error message.

I used to think that static typing was an obstacle. Now I'm burning in the isinstance/hasattr/getattr/setattr hell.

There are definitely use cases where something like C is still the best option because it's faster. For the most part consumer software it's unnecessary, but it's not obsolete for all applications.

Yeah, plus it has type hints and tooling to make said type hints mandatory.

Also, like, fuck golang, it's such a shit language and the compiler does very little to protect you. I'd say that mypy does a better job of giving you AOT protection.

Rust is the foot gun, it's so perfect that you genuinely cannot just sit down and type out what you need.

Plenty of complex things have been written in fad languages. And not only complex things, COBOL was one of the biggest fad languages of all time.

I'm completely confused by why they seem to think it's impossible to have coding errors in rust. I'm also confused as to why they seem to think that errors are actually a problem. You get them you fix them. Who cares about what language you do it in.

This stinks of somebody who's been in the industry for about 2 years and now thinks they're hot shit.

Spark's syntax reminds me of submitting an application to a bank before I had a permanent address.

Yes it looks like I'm checking all the boxes, but I have to fudge some requirements just to get the process running, and remind myself to update the details later

i laughed pretty hard thinking isn’t that just ada

so we got rid of ada for c++ now from c++ to rust chasing ada lmao