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> "I/We failed with <insert language feature>" never generalizes to "<insert language feature>" is bad.

I thought the same for decades, then I met Groovy and Grails. Of course, it’s not bad in an absolute sense (IMHO that doesn’t make any sense), but when some problem can be found only at runtime, when any proper compiler would catch that compile time, it’s hard to argue that it’s a good direction. Especially when TypeScript made it quite obvious what’s possible only with simple type checking.



> TypeScript made it quite obvious what’s possible only with simple type checking.

Typescript's type system is anything but simple.




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