Typescript over Javascript ~ We "red pilled" our entire team.

Sometime ago we agreed that everyone on my team should learn TypeScript as level up because we found that it led to more error free code while also improving productivity. We could kill more birds with TypeScript and we were all very excited how this crucial step brought us closer than ever to our goal of cutting back the time consuming type-error checks and putting that back into other productive tasks.

Our productivity soared by up to 500%.

We began shipping features 5x faster.

That shift also meant we no longe utilized plain JavaScript for any new projects and here was the big deal:

Type safety - We were taking enormous advantage of TypeScript's inherent type safety guarantees to save potentially weeks of development time and to be better able to catch potential errors during development which significantly improved the predictability and reliability of our code.

*JavaScript diminished our team's error insights & increased debugging trauma for all of us including leads.

But with TypeScript, when it came to predicting runtime code behavior we were no longer flying blind.

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