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Comment on Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?

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I occasionally see people complaining about long TypeScript compile times where a small code base can take multiple minutes (possibly 10 minutes). I think to myself WTF, because large code bases should take no more than 20 seconds on ancient hardware.

On another note I recently wrote this large single page app that is just a collection of functions organized by page sections as a collection of functions according to a nearly flat typescript interface. It’s stupid simple to follow in the code and loads as fast as an eighth of a second. Of course that didn’t stop HN users from crying like children for avoiding use of their favorite framework.

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