I see what you're saying about syntax and type-checking being separate stages, but they're both compile-time (or do we call it transpile-time?) errors enforced

I see what you're saying about syntax and type-checking being separate stages, but they're both compile-time (or do we call it transpile-time?) errors enforced by the language. Either way, I can't copy-paste working JS code into TS, which is what matters. There's probably another "asterisk" for this, but the other thing is how TS in Node by default won't allow `require` (vanilla NodeJS), only `import` (ESM).