Better is hard to qualify but I'll add my 2 cents: - for functional programmers TS offers lots of flexibility and power many other languages including statical

Better is hard to qualify but I'll add my 2 cents: - for functional programmers TS offers lots of flexibility and power many other languages including statically typed and pure don't - TS functions or methods that throw don't show up in the type system (they do in Java) I hope TS keeps getting stricter.