> I had other ways I could think of to reduce errors (tests, more robust code, etc) You can still do that with TypeScript and also get type checks, null checks

> I had other ways I could think of to reduce errors (tests, more robust code, etc) You can still do that with TypeScript and also get type checks, null checks, and just typos found for you by the compiler. Why wouldn't you want the compiler to do that for you? I don't want to do it, I want the tools to do it.