Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
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Java and JavaScript are blights and should never be used.
That's the popular opinion tbh. Even Java devs admit Java kinda sucks.
I'd add TS to the dumpster fire. It's a gilded pile of poop
TS dev here. Yep.
There's worse, but not by much. Looking at you, PHP
Imo TS is basically the diarrhea that is javascript, pushed together and polished. It looks nice, works great but you are, in the end of the day, still working with a pile of diarrhoea