TypeScript Doesn't Prevent Bugs
Controversial opinion from someone who uses TypeScript every day
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TypeScript Doesn't Prevent Bugs
I use TypeScript in every project. I genuinely like it. And I think the claim that TypeScript prevents bugs is mostly wrong.
TypeScript prevents a specific category of error: calling a function with the wrong argument type, accessing a property that doesn't exist, forgetting a case in a union. Those are real mistakes. They happen. TypeScript catches them at compile time instead of runtime. Good.
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