I’m fully with you. This greatly simplifies tooling by making transpilers entirely optional, meaning you don’t need a complicated setup just to get going. Devel

I’m fully with you. This greatly simplifies tooling by making transpilers entirely optional, meaning you don’t need a complicated setup just to get going. Developers get convenience, users aren’t affected, that’s a win all around. People may not fully realize this, but the problem with the “just standardize TypeScript” suggestions is that TypeScript is a fast moving target. This is actually well argued in the proposal: lots of meaningful innovation is still happening in that space with more precise checks, which also means that small incompatibilities happen from version to version. That’s okay if we’re talking about dev tooling that a team can choose to upgrade at their own pace. It would be really bad to have browser upgrades affect the functionality of existing websites.