> TypeScript enhances refactoring regardless of whether you're OOP or functional. I've just seen way more TS code that looks like Java than code that's C-style

> TypeScript enhances refactoring regardless of whether you're OOP or functional. I've just seen way more TS code that looks like Java than code that's C-styled Haskell (and we have/had transpiled languages that were more aimed at this, like Elm or Purescript). And also way more programmers that can do the former than the latter. This really isn't my major area of complaint here, if at all. You have large projects with plenty of programmers, so you both want to express the common micro- and macro-patterns and have solid IDE support to help you analyze and refactor that. This isn't a bad thing. I sometimes wish it would be different, but that's my "spare time philosophical meandering" part, not the part of me that gets me paid. The whole shebang of TS add-ons, its ES20xx underpinnings and the tooling surrounding it is well suited to bigger programs. I enjoy programming it it more than some other languages. The ambivalency of my initial paragraph isn't a reflection of TS's specific weaknesses or strengths, but with some organizational paradigms. And yes, type-checking can get you something even for small programs, and all the people doing it to make their laser-focused progressive UI elements bullet-proof can be happy and proud about it, but I doubt that TS would've been written just for those lucky few. As it is -- and that's why we got blog posts like this -- TS is often a step for bigger frontend projects, either from the start, or migrating ones that grew a bit too much. Again, a good way to use the language, and better than plenty of alternatives. Is it better than not having a lot of those problems in the first place because might not always need a SPA or heavy-weight components? >It's a language with a fast runtime, but it's also easy to develop with and has some really delightful tooling. Compared to Java/C#, if you're doing orthodox enterprise, or Elixir/Rust/etc if you're not? I mean, with esbuild etc., it's not as bad as it was a few years ago, but without the argument of "full-stack", I wouldn't see myself picking it in a clean room situation.