I use TS as standard now (because every job requires it), but I dislike it immensely. I've used static langs like Java and GoLang and prefer them over TS. Heck

I use TS as standard now (because every job requires it), but I dislike it immensely. I've used static langs like Java and GoLang and prefer them over TS. Heck I even like ruby-rails more. Since I'm fullstack (TS on FE/BE), it's hard to move 100% away from TS (becz a use React) and it irks me how everything has changed the last 10 years of so. I am a seasoned developer and can code (in JS) extremely fast, clean and performant. With sufficient test coverage you can go a long way. Of course if you use TS and change something important, the compiler will tell you all the places you have to refactor. This is super useful. However in my experience with a fair amount of TS codebases, there has been a tendency for devs to use as many clever TS features of possible (e.g. utility classes and generating crazy generic types from multiple types). I detest this style of programming, becz when you have to can't get something to work, it's a pain to try and understand the errors. This also extends to TS enabled libraries which can be challenging when you try and do something non-standard. I burn time trying to understand the errors and getting TS out of my way, so I can get on with the task at hand. I find cases that if you look at the logic I've written, there's not a chance that something can be undefined and yet I have to wrap code in "if's" just to satisfy the compiler. Even though I have a ton of experience, I deliberately code for that junior devs can understand/debug/work-with or the support engineer who just got woke up and trying to fix prod, which in my experience, isn't a common approach anymore. This is part of the problem IMHO. Most devs I talk to are using TS as their first language and have mostly never experienced the joy (and lack of safety, I grant you) of dynamic/non-typed languages (e.g. ruby/lisp). Get a lisp-er to do TS and start hearing the flood of swear words. lol. Of course, I understand the benefits of TS, but for me at least there's no joy in it and that's one of the reasons I got in this game in the first place.