If I had to start writing JS now, tabula rasa, I would feel the same way. For what it’s worth, TypeScript is actually pretty darn good. And it has an absurdly p

If I had to start writing JS now, tabula rasa, I would feel the same way. For what it’s worth, TypeScript is actually pretty darn good. And it has an absurdly powerful type system (because it has to, to meaningfully represent real world JS usage). Probably too powerful, but it can be a good bit of fun if that’s interesting to you. If you want to give it another look, I’d start with Deno. TypeScript is supported at runtime with no noticeable cost, it’s standards-based so documentation is accurate, there isn’t a shit ton of legacy stuff to wade through. And the types for stuff you’re likely to interact with are probably reasonably coherent, you probably won’t be interacting with interfaces that accept variadic maybe strings or numbers or callbacks or complex unspecified objects.