The downsides of writing a large project in Typescript: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-typescript-tax-132ff4cb175b
I don't share all the author's views, but makes interesting comments on what percentage bugs get caught by the typechecker, and type declaration verbosity/placement challenges.
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I've seen "cons cells" and "cons pairs", but today I saw "conses", which is new to me.
(Clearly Lisp has no downsides, only pros and cons! 🙃)
Uniform function call syntax treats `fido.bark()` the same as `Dog::bark(fido)`.
This seems like a really nice way of representing methods in a language. Are there any downsides? There are plenty of languages without this.
Go has a wonderful, accessible discussion of how it does inlining today, the downsides, and the plans for 1.22:
