I wouldn’t recommend that. You want your types to have meaning for the business and you want to derive types from each other. It’s counterproductive to individually type every variable without context.
In python at least, with strict-mode, Any is useless because you can do almost nothing to it. You can print, you can call 'dir' 'help' and other built-ins, and you can pass it to functions that accept Any.
That means that sprinkling any around your code isn't a great way to silence errors.
I don’t know about Python, but for converting JS to TS you start with allow-implicit-any turned on and add types to your business objects as you go. Eventually your turn it off and fix what remains.
Note that while a lot of people do it this way, my blog post this discussion is notionally about on expressly argues that that’s exactly what not to do!
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I wouldn’t recommend that. You want your types to have meaning for the business and you want to derive types from each other. It’s counterproductive to individually type every variable without context.
In python at least, with strict-mode, Any is useless because you can do almost nothing to it. You can print, you can call 'dir' 'help' and other built-ins, and you can pass it to functions that accept Any.
That means that sprinkling any around your code isn't a great way to silence errors.
I don’t know about Python, but for converting JS to TS you start with allow-implicit-any turned on and add types to your business objects as you go. Eventually your turn it off and fix what remains.
Note that while a lot of people do it this way, my blog post this discussion is notionally about on expressly argues that that’s exactly what not to do!
I have now, in fact, RTFA! You definitely make a lot of good points.