Samuel
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the best part about typescript is you can say things with extra emphasis
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Ingvar StepanyanYou can do better than that: bsky.app/profile/rrev...
Ingvar Stepanyan@rreverser.com· 4 Dec 2024If you're using TypeScript, don't forget that you can use both sides of the expression for that extra performance boost:
if (!!!!!!!!!!foo!!!!!!!!!!)
is valid code
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Mike 🍁... Suffix not?
1 1Samuelit’s a type assertion
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Mike 🍁Actually nevermind, that is super useful. 😱
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Robert AnderbergYes, very useful, but also often an indicator that someone is just working around the type system and writing unsafe code. It's often better to assert types with "as blah" or use type narrowing or whatever. We've been hit multiple times with people using this and ending up with exceptions in prod!
1 1Mike 🍁Thanks for the tip. In that case, it makes me wonder if this should be something that should be optionally flagged as a warning, but I haven't written any code with it, so I don't know if there is code where it is the best option. I.e. discourage features that do more harm than good.
1Robert AnderbergYeah it's definitely a potential footgun and it's worth thinking about why it's being used if you end up using it.
Blank JimmyI mean, to be fair, the best part of typescript is you don't have to do prototypical inheritance. 😜
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Jim Calabro ♟️!!tick is an absolute classic
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Bohdan PavukKotlin can do that, too, although the emphasis is not so strong :)
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Sangeeth SudheerThe `shut!.the!.fuck!.up!.i!.know!.what!.im!.doing!` operator
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