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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.
While the rest of the world shifted left dudes went ahead and shifted right
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