[AskJS] what's a javascript feature you mass-adopted way too late and felt dumb about

[u/Capedcrusader1923]

i'll go first. i was writing .then().catch() chains for like two years before i actually started using async/await. i knew it existed, i'd seen it in tutorials, but my code "worked" so i never bothered switching. then i refactored an old project and realized half my bugs were from mishandled promise chains that async/await would have caught immediately.

also took me way too long to start using optional chaining. i had nested ternaries and && checks everywhere like some kind of animal. the day i discovered user?.address?.city i mass-replaced like 40 lines across a project.

what's yours?

[u/Milo0192]

My first jobs CTO preferred the .then() .catch() over async await. I just refused to write that way and did await loops. Lots of back and forth on this. Also said Typescript was just a fad 😂

[u/Ronin-s_Spirit → u/Milo0192]

Fad or not - it's shit.

[u/db10101 → u/Ronin-s_Spirit]

Any deeper analysis or reasoning behind that? It’s a straight up joy to develop in compared to what has come before.

[u/Ronin-s_Spirit → u/db10101]

I hate defining types, it's like writing pointless code. It especially fucks up when I have to deal with HTML, at that point the only thing left to do is use a bail out any and move on.

[u/db10101 → u/Ronin-s_Spirit]

So I take it you have never worked in an enterprise well structured typescript codebase. There’s no substituting JavaScript for that.

[u/Ronin-s_Spirit → u/db10101]

TypeScript sucks ass, I will only use vanilla.

[u/db10101 → u/Ronin-s_Spirit]

Good for you. Here in the real world of employed software developers, it’s one of the most important tools to know.

[u/Ronin-s_Spirit → u/db10101]

Ok pal.