Typescript is good, I also like the closure compiler. Both help enormously when a project gets beyond a handful of files. But there's still an onus on developer

Typescript is good, I also like the closure compiler. Both help enormously when a project gets beyond a handful of files. But there's still an onus on developers to actually structure their code and do some 'engineering'; a ball of string in any language is still a ball of string. Not js's fault.