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Comment by ilrwbwrkhv | Hacker News Reader

Typescript looks so ugly visually. It gives me PHP vibes. I think it's the large words at the first column of the eye line:

export const

function

type

return

etc

This makes scanning through the code really hard because your eye has to jump horizontally.

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Silly comment, but I concede this bit is very ugly — they should have extracted the inner type to an alias and used that twice.

    options: [
        Omit<ChatCompletionParseParams, 'model'> & { model: Model },
        Omit<ChatCompletionParseParams, 'model'> & { model: Model },
      ],

like this

    type Options = Omit<ChatCompletionParseParams, 'model'> & { model: Model }
    
    options: [Options, Options]

which of those words are large?

Ah yes, such large words like const, function, or return, that only exist in TypeScript and PHP.

So, like, which programming language do you think is not ugly? J? K?

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