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Ah yes, governing the open air prison, where the average age of the resident is 18, having their civilian infrastructure bombed and destroyed constantly. Why didn't they think of self determination before? /s

Which makes it funnier because they fought over Toledo.

Ludwig chill

It's newer and Microsoft based. Easy way to get a bunch of people on the hate train for those reasons alone.

I understand why some hobbyist individuals with small-ish scripts might not see the value, even though I even still disagree there.

The more code and people touching the code, the more value you'll see.

Hey bud. Can you tell me any other government appointed positions that are lifetime, and can't be changed by the elected position that appointed them in the first place? I'll wait.

Well, TS is just JS with strong typing and type annotations. It's almost the same language, just adding guard-rails and safety checks that the base language doesn't have.

There's a bit of fiddling with configuration and using npm, but it's not much overhead. There's plenty of tsconfig settings to customize the process for your need, but most the defaults are quite sane.

Entirely depends on your skillset and company. That might be true somewhere, but seems strange.

I do recommend you pick up typescript though. It will forcibly teach you some good habits, expectations, and some more base understanding of what you're actually doing.

And this data is old, it's much worse now.

You said it yourself, they're appointed, not elected.

You are talking about a completely unelected branch of government you do realize, right?