Samuel
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I wish javascript had `if let`, it's a great pattern
8 30SamuelI feel like there's a happy medium between JS (gets verbose for common tasks) and whatever Swift is doing
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OrualYeah one of my favourite little features of Rust. `let ... if` is also super good, not sure if JavaScript has that one.
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Tim MarininHow do you feel about `with`?
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Tom ShermanPattern matching, records and tuples, types as comments. Then declare the language as done, it's perfect at that point
2 1Samuelpipe operator? 👀
1 2Tom ShermanI hardly know her
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fedetibaldo | Wishlist KEEP MAKING+1 for types as comments. We will be entering a new area when (if) those are released
Cynthia 🐈Isn't that feasible using discriminated unions in TypeScript? Or for more complex cases type guards? 🤔
I feel like the downside is that it doesn't let you unwrap the value but I feel that's about it..? Or am I missing something obvious 🤔
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Taha ShashtariThat, and the pipe operator. Once you get used to it in other functional programming languages, you wish every language included it.
Ekko Locria (any/all) 🦇👁️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈⚧️I only know C# and the Blueprint visual scripting system, is if let from C# or another language (from what I understand JavaScript is similar to C#, but I'm fairly new to programming and only started learning it for Gamedev)
Jason Mulliganno, it's not