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In May of 2023 an internal refactoring PR from the Svelte repo made it to the front page of the Hacker News forums. The (superficially) controversial PR seemingly vindicated TypeScript skeptics/luddites (which at the time included figures like Dan Abramov of the React team). The premier darling of web frameworks ostensibly rejecting the benefits of static typing was a big deal. 1 So Rich Harris…
What's .dig ? Ruby hashes have a .dig method that allows us safely access a nested value in a Hash. h = { foo : { bar : { baz : 12 } } } puts h . dig ( :foo , :bar , :baz ) # 12 puts h . dig ( :foo , :qux , :baz ) # nil (no Error) Expand this to see how other languages do it. This plays a similar role to JavaScript's optional chaining . h ? . foo ? . bar ? . baz ; // 12 h ? . foo ? . qux ? . baz ;…