TypeScript, while interesting, isn't so great if you're coming from an expression based language (i.e. where everything is a value). That you have to return fr

TypeScript, while interesting, isn't so great if you're coming from an expression based language (i.e. where everything is a value). That you have to return from statements is such a flow-breaking PITA, one that leads to ugly, verbose code. switch is particularly painful in this regard, would be wonderful to write `let foo = switch (x) { case ... }`, but no, it's a statement, not a value. Also, structural typing has its strengths, but equality is not one of them. In order to generate a nominal type you have to hack in a private class member (what they call "branding"). This makes newtype/value class wrappers needlessly verbose. TS feels somehow like a Java/Javascript hybrid with some more advanced type system features (e.g. union types) mixed in. Saying that, editor support (VS Code) and JS interop are pretty amazing.