beeline-nodejs VS TypeScript

I find using ES Modules in Node.js to be full of gotchas and anti-patterns - sticking with CommonJS seems more functional in most cases.

1: With ES Modules, imports are asynchronous.

Synchronous imports are incredibly powerful. You can ensure that your application doesn't block on first requests, but instead on load. Initializing connection pools, setting up caches, etc.

You'll also find quite a few packages in NPM that explicitly depend on require over import just so that they can perform the bindings they have to before things get going (see https://www.npmjs.com/package/honeycomb-beeline as an example).

2: With ES Modules imports are commonly destructured.

I know it makes your code feel lighter to have const { add } = import("whatever"); - but as your files grow larger, and those imports start to become complicated bits for middleware or other features, you're just making it more difficult for future maintainers to figure out what those functions mean. A bit of context never hurt anybody, and for my money I'll be that this:

app.use(check);

is not nearly as useful as

app.use(Validator.check);

The example may be contrived - but 9/10 times I find this makes code better than the alternative.

All of these arguments go out the door for Frontend work - that's a totally different terrain. I think one of the big arguments is that developers want to use the exact same JavaScript on frontend and Node applications - but that's an argument unwilling to admit the fact that they're two very different tasks. :)

An even better option is auto-instrumentation, where the APM library automatically identifies the libraries you use and track the operations you do with them. This is how Elastic APM works. Honeycomb's Beeline, DataDog's dd-trace and the OpenTelemetry Node.js client also provide automatic instrumentation. Of course, "operations" don't only happen when you interact with other libraries, so these libraries still let you manually add spans.

Regular expressions are part of the language, so it's not so unreasonable that TypeScript should parse them and take their semantics into account. Indeed, TypeScript 5.5 will include [new support for syntax checking of regular expressions](https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/55600), and presumably they'll eventually be able to solve the problem the GP highlighted on top of those foundations.

Dedicated syntax for creating unique subsets of a type that denote a particular refinement is a longstanding ask[2] - and very useful, we've experimented with implementations.[3]

I don't think it has any relation to runtime type checking at all. It's refinement types, [4] or newtypes[5] depending on the details and how you shape it.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/src/compil...

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