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		agos 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Type-constrained code generation with language mod... the codebases I've worked at in the last ten years are not as half arsed as that - and of course from my point of view are "real" enough. If a codebase is so unkempt the issue is not Typescript - and forgive for writing such a platitude, but you can write awful code in Java, too.

tpm 7 months ago [–]

Yes but it will be typed awful code and the typing provides a grounding of sorts. However awful code in untyped/dynamically typed langs can be unspeakably bad. I have many years of Perl experience...

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