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TypeScript Caught My Bug Before It Hit Production — I Owe It an Apology
I resisted TypeScript for two years. Called it overhead. Called it unnecessary ceremony. Then it caught a null reference that would have crashed a client demo in front of 40 people. I haven't doubted it since.
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