Not the OP but my take is that Typescript has done great things for improving JS but it's still JS and carries a lot of it's baggage with it. There is only so f

Not the OP but my take is that Typescript has done great things for improving JS but it's still JS and carries a lot of it's baggage with it. There is only so far you can take it while maintaining compatibility and the type system is overly complicated in places because of this. It also doesn't really give you the same guarantees that something like Rust does, I don't believe the two type systems are that comparable. On top of that unless you use all TS packages types are maintained and installed separately adding to an already tricky to maintain dependency graph that comes with Node development.