> but even then, that assertion is incorrect, javascript has been making up a large majority of the codebase for quite some time now. Nodejs is 12 years old and

> but even then, that assertion is incorrect, javascript has been making up a large majority of the codebase for quite some time now. Nodejs is 12 years old and jquery 15. That argument is one that could've been made like 9 years ago, Typescript is 9 years old. React was still a project then and Angular was brand new. SPA's were still a new-ish concept then. JS was not used as widely 10 years ago as it is now, thanks to SPA's. The web was a drastically different place back then. I am not at all saying that TypeScript should always be used, far from that. I just think it has a valid spot in the world of web development.