When I bang something up, I'll use Visual Studio 2015 and Typescript from the get-go, now that I'm used to it I find it much faster due to the Intellisense on a

When I bang something up, I'll use Visual Studio 2015 and Typescript from the get-go, now that I'm used to it I find it much faster due to the Intellisense on all my code, and all the browser code too (and anything else I add typings for [1]). I find it way, way, way more productive than plain old JS development without an IDE. [1] https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped EDIT: I always turn off optional any types, so everything has to be type annotated, even if that means I simply cast to an explicit <any>. I find that non trivial problems in JS become so much easier in TS due to the compiler and built-in refactoring tools. I can't think of anything negative to say about TS at all!!!