It's a fair point. TypeScript + Node is mostly fine. My main issue with using TypeScript is that you're building in the JavaScript ecosystem. For most things y

It's a fair point. TypeScript + Node is mostly fine. My main issue with using TypeScript is that you're building in the JavaScript ecosystem. For most things you'll need to use JavaScript packages which typically only have a few years of maturity to back them up. There's also no standardised way of building things in TypeScript and this was a similar problem PHP had when I first started working with PHP. Back then it was common for developers to copy and paste bits of code from all over the internet into their projects. Every project would be structured differently. The tooling wasn't standardised. Etc.. But today PHP feels surprisingly mature. TypeScript is like trying to build something in Ruby without Rails, or Java without Spring. And now PHP has Laravel which is used almost universally in new PHP projects.