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I've reported 5 bugs about Flow and can list at least 10 other bugs reported by other people that I experience on a daily basis. Most of them have been upvoted by hundreds of people. Most of them have been opened 1 or 2 years ago. Most of them don't have a single reply from people working on Flow (or one of these: "yes I guess it's a valid point", "pull requests are welcome", "it's not a bug" , "we would have to rewrite a lot of stuff", without any follow-up).

That's what really frustrates me about Flow after using it for many years. We shouldn't have to rewrite valid code, write unreadable workarounds or add // $FlowFixMe annotations to avoid Flow's issues. I lead a small team of junior developers to whom I presented Flow. We now use it everywhere. But they often experience difficulties when they try to type their code. When I see what blocks them, my answer is too often "oh yeah, it's a bug in Flow. There is an issue about it on GitHub opened in 2016".

I'm right now waiting for this https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/4837 to be merged to move all my projects to TS.

Edit: and I don't blame the devs working on Flow. I guess it's more a priority issue at Facebook. Or maybe they just gave up on the community support since TS is too ahead.



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