This week we sit down with Chris Toomey and address all the holy wars:

Elm vs React, TypeScript vs JavaScript, product vs development, and even VS Code vs Vim.

This is a pragmatic look at how type systems can improve the way you build and talk about product.

In the right hands — these tools can make teamwork a dream.

But in the wrong hands, well...

Let's just listen close and make sure your hands are the right ones.

Featuring * Chris Toomey — Twitter, Website, GitHub * Michael Chan — Twitter, Website, GitHub

Links * thoughtbot — thoughtbot is a design and development consultancy that brings your digital product ideas to life * Giant Robots — A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software * UPCASE by thoughtbot — Become an experienced developer and take "junior" out of your title * bikeshed — On The Bike Shed, hosts Chris Toomey & Steph Viccari discuss their development experience and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week * 172: What I Believe About Software — A review of thoughtbot's process and the intersection of product management and development * GraphQL * TypeScript * Elm * TypeScript + React TALK at Boston React 2019 * Building Web Apps with Elm — Craft a reactive Elm web app from start to finish * Chris Toomey: React & GraphQL – Bringing Simplicity to Client Side Development — React Boston 2018 * GraphQL: Bringing Simplicity And Correctness To A Client Near You (Chris Toomey) — GraphQL Summit 2018 * Language Server Extension Guide * neovim * onivim * 204: I Don't Like Rest — * 206: No-One Wants to be the Canary — Chris on GraphQL and designing endpoints vs exposing types * 58: Eve Porcello on Learning GraphQL

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