I won't repeat the other comments, but I'll note that you can make the additional, uglier step to get the results the first author expects by (as suggested) tre

I won't repeat the other comments, but I'll note that you can make the additional, uglier step to get the results the first author expects by (as suggested) treating the assignment as a pointer to the object and rendering the object immutable. const myObject = Object.freeze({ myValue: "Something", }); The problem with that is `Object.freeze` doesn't act on nested objects, so you usually have to have some other method/macro to do that for you. You might be able to do that with decorators in TS. It works on Object and Array types, but not on other primitive types. That part is frustrating. It would certainly be nice to have a single method for rendering any value immutable, whether it was the initial assignment or a built-in.