bingo. TypeScript had absolutely no excuse to keep JavaScript, beyond the misguided idea that because so many JavaScript developers exist that it should be eas

bingo. TypeScript had absolutely no excuse to keep JavaScript, beyond the misguided idea that because so many JavaScript developers exist that it should be easy to get them to learn types. First, they introduced a compiler. At that point, you may as well toss out JavaScript for a better language that actually has nice type syntax. TypeScript syntax is horrible. It makes JavaScript completely unreadable in many places. Second, JavaScript developers tend to be the type that have never learned another language beyond JavaScript. They come from bootcamps and elsewhere that only teaches JavaScript and that's all these developers know. They do not have the experience necessary to not make a mess of TypeScript's structural typing system. You'll end up with incoherent ad hoc types all over the place. You still have JavaScript's ad hoc data flow all over the place, but now you have TypeScript yelling at you while trying to formalize the mess and failing badly at it. What I find is that often when people say they like TypeScript they really mean they like VSCode.