Fair enough. I think TypeScript enjoys some "protection" from the obvious complaints because it advertises itself as (and it is) "just JavaScript", with types.

Fair enough. I think TypeScript enjoys some "protection" from the obvious complaints because it advertises itself as (and it is) "just JavaScript", with types. Therefore the complaints I often see about other languages compiling to JS are kind of moot or very easy to dismiss. For example "it eventually leaks JS" is dismissed as "yeah, duh! it is JS". TBH I do not have too much contact with TS other than its type definitions, so the experience I describe may not be relevant to TypeScript. I have repeatedly seen it for languages that provide a different set of abstractions than JS, though.