Context matters. Some people, while writing their own application code, find types to be annoying, a nuisance, or whatever. That's a personal (or team) decision

Context matters. Some people, while writing their own application code, find types to be annoying, a nuisance, or whatever. That's a personal (or team) decision. This article is targeted at authors and maintainers of high-adoption libraries. It says so right in the second paragraph. And, frankly (speaking as someone with experience on this topic), he's right. Maybe static isn't always the answer, but in the context of high-adoption libraries, a little bit of effort to improve clarity and strictness is a huge lever for cutting down on wasted time of thousands of developers everywhere. > The article doesn't really offer up any real arguments as to why you should specifically use TypeScript Did you read it? He offers the Git/Mercurial comparison of TypeScript's growing popularity.