TypeScripts pragmatism is indeed its biggest strength. It is very simple to get started with converting a JS codebase into TS. This means there is a _real_ and

TypeScripts pragmatism is indeed its biggest strength. It is very simple to get started with converting a JS codebase into TS. This means there is a _real_ and _practical_ migration path for all the mountains of existing JS. I haven't used Elm but I would assume the cost to convert existing code is much more significant. But TS then goes further and layers a lot of really nice features on top of the JS underpinnings. Being able to strongly type string-ly typed things are, again, such a useful feature to have for a codebase that interacts with JSON/JS. All this said, in my experience `Record` is not very heavily used, but is really useful when you do need to reach for it.