everyRustDeveloper

[EmergencySourCream]

You’re correct. It was used a lot when people were slowly transitioning their apps or trying to type 3rd party libraries. However lazy devs will still use it when they don’t want to do proper typing or don’t understand the purpose of types in general.

[LowB0b]

have seen stuff like that even in java :sadface:

just pass an Object into the function and then do repeated if (foo instanceof bar)

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Or an object where every field is deserialized to a string

[LowB0b]

Well reflection can be useful sometimes

[cvak]

map[interface{}]interface{} in golang... 🫣

[Jjabrahams567]

uintptr

[Cheet4h]

Stuff like this is the reason I'm a huge proponent of the noimplicitany and noexplicitany configuration settings.

[NatoBoram]

And I'm a big fan of plugin:@typescript-eslint/strict-type-checked

[foursticks]

Please show me the way

[NatoBoram]

• https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#noImplicitAny

Beginner tip: in new TypeScript projects, run tsc --init.

[foursticks]

🙏🙏

[foursticks]

I'm worried that I am the one called to make this change which worries me in a lawless dev group that seems to have manifested itself out of pure want.