> I got downvoted to -4 points

> You burned me at the stake like a witch for heresy.

I think you should try to get a better sense of proportion.

Also:

> my simple point that although the Principia Mathematica tried to do the impossible, there is still utility for its value as a programming self-teaching resource

I don't know what your original intention actually was, but your comment read to me very much as (1) implying that the OP was claiming that PM is useful for making people into better Typescript programmers (which OP very much does not claim) and (2) making fun of the OP for making such a claim while (3) calling the enterprise of which PM was a part "childish".

All of which seems to me like rather the sort of thing that does deserve downvoting to -4, though for what it's worth I didn't downvote you.

Sometimes it's worth revisiting the site guidelines on comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

I'm guessing people downvoted you for snark.