> "this trend is subjective dogma not objective value"
Ironically, the author own phrasing is not objective and somewhat hypocritical. S/He described the use of Typescript as "selling out and the Microsoft way of doing things". S/He's trying to leverage anti-Microsoft sentiment to boost her/his argument. Feels more like a smear campaign then an objective opinion.
How's that old saying go? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 47 times, shame on me.
Unfortunately I can't hear that song anymore without picturing the opening scenes of CSI Miami.
also, even though the MS anti-sentiment didn't pop up out of nowhere, it's not relevant in the static-vs-dynamic typing discussion...
I've never seen a person who actually is familiar with Typescript say anything negative about it, and it has huge uptake in the open source community.
Ref Book: The New Kingmakers
"It’s hard to feel too sorry for SOAP’s creators, however — particularly if what one Microsoft developer told Tim O’Reilly is true: “It was actually a Microsoft objective to make [SOAP] sufficiently complex that only the tools would read and write this stuff,” he explained, “and not humans.”"
I guess my take is overall they earned high marks from the dev community despite whatever misses they may have had over the years.
I was addressing the phrasing and lack of objectivity of the Typescript statement. At no point did I discuss the merits of anti MS sentiment.
Yes I agree with you that MS has burnt people in the past. At the same time it's not binary so 100% of MS != evil.