The developer experience is excellent with Typescript. It's so much nicer to get auto complete suggestions based on a type system rather than mostly heuristics

The developer experience is excellent with Typescript. It's so much nicer to get auto complete suggestions based on a type system rather than mostly heuristics in plain JS. Refactoring is breeze. I enjoy using TS. I enjoy basic correctness guarantees caught at transpile time. Of course there's trade-offs, but the whole article is a list of unconvincing appeals to authority. And then the author ends with: > Our tendency to just blinding reach for tools because it’s what Google or Facebook does often just makes things worse for both developers and the people who use what they build. You spent 4 paragraphs giving examples of other people using plain JS as the reason we should be blindly switching back to plain JS. Svelte swapped back to JS for n reasons that aren't applicable to you or most people. > I help people learn vanilla JavaScript, and I believe there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web. > I create courses and ebooks, run online workshops, and host the Vanilla JS Podcast. My developer tips newsletter is read by over 14k developers each weekday. Oh.