seems like a dismissive attitude... engineer can cost 1M a year easily and that eliminates viability of lot of small ideas. It's no different than internet servers costing thousands and then suddenly innovation makes them cost less by many factors and creating a surge in new startups.
Instead of being able to get autocomplete and normal refactoring you would get from plain js.. now you need to add typescript to supplement the mess...
At first I thought you were arguing against the point I made, but after reading this fully I totally agree. The worst offenders that are hell bent on naming variables as sentences are java developers. For some reason the boiler plate required by Java is no long enough for them. Lol. Joking aside, I think anywhere where the code is an API for external functions or anything like that. Having a very descriptive name and consistent convention is good, also if the variable is being carried over in a nested code or is being passed around or is being used 50 lines down somewhere then it is useful to name it in a way that is recognizable
Ultimately, I think even the choice of naming something and using a single letter communicates your intentions. If you make something a single letter then you're telling the reader that do not even worry about this variable it is just passing through, but if you need something your communicating your intentions of using this variable in the future it is more permanent in a sense
Sure, in this example user looks better. But as I said this code is not going to be existing on its own. There's going to be code preceded by this. Which is going to give a pretty good idea of what is being filtered on and you can always have comments before the code that can explain the general idea of what you're trying to achieve instead of burdening short-lived variables with a role of needing to give hints of what's going on at the expense of readability and speed of parsing mentally
If there is every time there a single variable is being searched then it means that it was not limited to that scope and by let's go. I mean in few lines front and back and if it wasn't then it should have never been a single letter variable. I see single letter variables as placeholders that are meant to live very temporarily. Few lines at best
Yea, often vars are placeholders and making them descripting just makes them misleading and harder to get to the point. But yea at least I trust myself to refactor code and make the var name more descriptive if I see it's no longer just temporary placeholder... but would be a challenge to have others follow the same principle. One using is short name because it only helps, another to use it because you are just lazy.
The illusion of a dream that kept people grinding has shattered. Housing prices doubling means that it's now clear that you will never achieve financial freedom, not that most would have but now there is no hope. Without any end goal, it's pointless to give your 100%. Now people's next goal is to make best what you are gonna get, and that is to do minimum.
I use notepad and trying to move away from it. 1st there is friction creating new files, 2nd no search functionality, 3rd I've too much freedom to just create files anywhere.