The Type Safety Shortcut

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should . This code is the programming equivalent of naming your twins "Twin1" and "Twin2" then wondering why they need therapy. Using keywords as variable names, declaring const const , setting 5 = 4 , and claiming 2 + 2 === 5 is true? This isn't just cursed code—it's the kind of abomination that makes senior devs wake up in cold sweats. Future maintainers will hunt you down. Not to ask questions, but for revenge.

On the left: the verbose programmer who meticulously types out if(bool == false) with all those extra keystrokes, probably the same person who writes comments like "// increment i by 1" above i++ . On the right: the efficient programmer who uses if(!bool) because why waste precious milliseconds typing equality operators when the logical NOT operator does the exact same thing? This dev probably names variables like 'x' and finishes week-long projects in a day. Both snippets are functionally identical, but the right side just screams "I know what I'm doing and I value my wrist health."

The eternal dance of trying to type return while Intellisense watches your every keystroke like a hawk. You start with re , thinking you're on the right track, then add tu and rn ... but that final keystroke? That's where dreams die. One misplaced finger and suddenly you're not exiting a function—you're apparently opening a RestaurantMenu class that you didn't even know existed in your codebase. The sheer joy on Intellisense's face (right side) compared to your growing frustration (left side) perfectly captures that moment when your IDE decides it knows better than you what you're trying to type. And of course, it's always when you're in a hurry or showing code to someone else that your IDE decides to showcase its comedic timing.

The aristocracy of web development has arrived! TypeScript developers looking down their noses at JavaScript peasants with that perfect mix of pity and disgust. Nothing says "I'm better than you" quite like strong typing and compile-time error checking. Meanwhile, JavaScript developers are out there living dangerously with their undefined is not a function errors, like savages without powdered wigs. The TypeScript nobility wouldn't dare touch code that doesn't explicitly declare its intentions - how barbaric!

Looking at that isEven function hurts my soul on a spiritual level. Someone's literally checking if a number is even by hard-coding individual cases (0 is even, 1 is odd, 2 is even, 3 is odd...) instead of just using the modulo operator ( return num % 2 === 0 ). And they're doing this while casually flying 30,000 feet in the air with a gorgeous view! The perfect combo of terrible code and flex. My sanity would jump out that window faster than you can say "runtime complexity."

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