> If you're writing a prototype (so the code will eventually be thrown away), it's just 200 LOC and you're using `any` for everything, why even use TypeScript?

> If you're writing a prototype (so the code will eventually be thrown away), it's just 200 LOC and you're using `any` for everything, why even use TypeScript? Should just use vanilla JavaScript instead. The case where I've found this useful is making a quick and dirty prototype that integrates within an existing typescript codebase. Such a prototype would never make it to the main branch but sometimes it's useful to make a quick proof of concept of the the runtime behaviour before comitting to sorting out the types.