• stevecrox@kbin.social
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    I am currently teaching python and JavaScript devs Typescript. Everytime they hit a problem they switch to any

    Sigh

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        “Your crappy tests are failing again on my branch. I’ve commented them out until you fix them.”

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          Sadly that sort of thing got so common where I work that I’ll run the tests three times before considering looking into the error message to see if it is something I broke.

          From time to time we take some days just to fix tests with inconsistent results, but there’s always more popping up.

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      1 year ago

      the beatings will continue until typing improves

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      That’s why I kinda don’t like Python and JavaScript anymore. Every time I want types for a library it’s gonna take me time to get it working. For every serious project I do, I use a strongly typed language.

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      Just create a al Inter rule that rejects Any types and a pre-commit hook that refuses the commit if the linter fails. Sometimes the brute force approach is the best way to teach