A Mental Model to think in TypesScript

This article was first published at TK's blog.

Photo by Manuel Cosentino

One day I came across a tweet from Lari Mazza that says

“Can I make a suggestion? Types are hard to understand when you’ve only worked with JS in your life and suddenly have to learn TypeScript"

As a software engineer that learned Python, Ruby, Javascript, and Clojure first, when I tried C++, it was…