(Hoping to not invalidate anyone's concerns with this comment) The majority of complaints I heard on Typescript were in the lines of: "I should be able to do t

(Hoping to not invalidate anyone's concerns with this comment) The majority of complaints I heard on Typescript were in the lines of: "I should be able to do this X thing that would not fly in a static language / not a good idea". Many times Typescript caught me doing stupid things like passing the wrong type or not checking data adequately, also forcing me to comment my code by describing shape of the data. It was a life saver for debugging, though it's not perfect, it's more like lipstick on a pig for a badly designed language.