There are so many choices, though. I haven't tried any of them myself because I hate JavaScript, I hate front-end stuff, and I hate Node, so I try to avoid all

There are so many choices, though. I haven't tried any of them myself because I hate JavaScript, I hate front-end stuff, and I hate Node, so I try to avoid all of this. But I was told that TypeScript was awesome, and the whole industry is moving toward it, so that's what we chose for this project. Next time I won't choose TypeScript. I'll either stick with vanilla JS and know that I don't have a type system to catch my mistakes, or I'll try one of: Elm, PureScript, Flow, ReScript, ReasonML, Dart, etc. There are so many choices, and I'm sure the ecosystems for these other choices is absolutely abysmal compared to TypeScript, but I rather reinvent a few wheels than use wheels that look round at first, but aren't.