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That's fine. You can not like/believe in static types - I'm not here to debate that (even if i did start accidentally advocating for it).

What I don't understand is why you would chose to use Typescript, and then opt out of the only/main benefit it actually has. At that point you're just writing dynamically typed Javascript with more keyboard presses.

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Why do type system discussions bring out this type of academic-tier absolutism? You can get immense value out of TS even if you hit eject every so often, just like you get immense value out of Rust’s memory safety even if you write unsafe code, just like you get immense value out of 2FA even if you tick “remember me for 30 days”. Arguing that you shouldn’t use TS if you override it sometimes is throwing 100 babies out with the bathwater. Extending this to claiming that someone “doesn’t believe in static types” is needlessly argumentative and presumptuous. Anyone that makes this sort of absolute argument, I’d argue either hasn’t used TS enough, is using it in an environment where resources can be burned working around and abstracting the cases where it isn’t expressive enough, or has an overly permissive configuration.

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