Decorators aren't in EcmaScript yet. And the ES standard changed since they were implemented in TS (I honestly don't know if TS changed to accomodate or if they

Decorators aren't in EcmaScript yet. And the ES standard changed since they were implemented in TS (I honestly don't know if TS changed to accomodate or if they're just mismatched now). TS sure as hell has something called "enum", which is NOT the same as their string literal types (those are good). I disagree about the privates: closures are perfectly good functional ways of handling them, and if you didn't want that, we have symbols now to do it for "real". And privates aren't terrible. Protected however are OOP bullshit. Though my primary point isn't in how its features are implemented: it's how they're advertised. That, to me, is what makes TypeScript "a C# for the web". It's implementation isn't terrible, especially if you stick to the "good parts". However, the "good parts" they advertise/encourages are javascript "bad parts.