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I worked for a company that refused to use TypeScript because it "slowed devs down". It was...a laughable period in my life.
Which is faster, getting a squiggle instantly or discovering a silly bug at runtime later? So happy I could write code in Typescript and be confident it would do what I expected when it ran without digging out the debugger.
typescript is a linter
While the rest of the world shifted left dudes went ahead and shifted right