A text adventure game on TypeScript's type system

[bilalq]

I never get tired of seeing fun little things like this. Is there a way to make VSCode not truncate the type info?

[wwwigham]

`noErrorTruncation: true` in a tsconfig.[1] It also affects hover and quickinfo truncation. Technically it will still truncate, just at a way higher limit, like a million characters.

[1]https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#noErrorTruncation

[Kyro38]

It's an open ticket. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/94679

[JohnDotAwesome]

For those wanting a TS Playground link: https://tinyurl.com/mw6pbpht

[mckravchyk]

If you have been wondering how much data a uri hash can store. Firefox can handle up to 1M characters, Chromium much more. I did not test Safari and mobile browsers though. This game is at 12k encoded and is far from hitting the limit. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16247162/max-size-of-loc...

[frabjoused]

I made a PR to add this link to the readme.

[foota]

What the fuck

[tempodox]

The type system is Turing-complete, after all…

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833

[gustavorg]

I'm sorry which "What the fuck" are you referring to?

[nielsbot]

indeed

[cercatrova]

Related, discussed previously, Type-Level TypeScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32913125

[durnygbur]

So which one should now one study - TypeScript type system, RxJS operators, or the next generation of vomit produced by the Angular team? Together they compose extremely unfunny clusterfuck. For now my CVs all fall into a black hole, you better not fall off the employment train.

[koshergweilo]

An interesting tidbit that I found in the source code is that it only accepts integers from 1 to 20. Perfectly sufficient for its use case, although not quite extendable as I would hope

[noduerme]

This is neat. Can someone explain why the generic types extending string need to default to any in all these cases, like: `TDescription extends string = any` ?

[cacozen]

It’s just so I can later reuse that type without having to pass in the generic. Like I do on lines 41 and 42

[dschuessler]

What a beautiful little treat. For everyone curious, it took me less than ten minutes to play through. Well done!

[wildgeodude]

This is really neat, thanks!

[have_faith]

How do you play the game?

[lucasmullens]

git clone, make sure TypeScript is installed, and open src/index.ts

Would be nice if this was exported to some TypeScript playground environment.

[notjustanymike]

Weirdly, a spider killing me isn't the worst thing I've seen written in Typescript.

[cacozen]

Lol