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TypeScript produces less exit-heavy code than Go or Python — and more branching

exit_heavy averages 5.3 in non-TypeScript repos and 4.5 in TypeScript. complex_branching has the highest max-out rate of any pattern in TS. The flip is structural, not stylistic — and it changes which refactoring techniques help.

Apr 17, 2026 Read →

Stephen Collins

Hub functions are a frontend framework problem — here's the data

hub_function barely appears in Go, Rust, or Python repos. In TypeScript UI framework code it's concentrated in coordinator functions with fan-out values of 37–112. Here's why.

Apr 17, 2026 Read →

Stephen Collins

Five structural patterns appear in nearly every TypeScript OSS repo I've analysed

Five structural patterns — god_function, long_function, exit_heavy, complex_branching, deeply_nested — appear in 86–100% of the 28 TypeScript OSS repos I've analysed. Here's what the data shows.

Apr 17, 2026 Read →

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TypeScript produces less exit-heavy code than Go or Python — and more branching

Hub functions are a frontend framework problem — here's the data

Five structural patterns appear in nearly every TypeScript OSS repo I've analysed

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