> I find the folks who struggle the most are trying to write JS as if they are still a C# or Java developer so they constantly run into square peg round hole is

> I find the folks who struggle the most are trying to write JS as if they are still a C# or Java developer so they constantly run into square peg round hole issues and blame it on the tool. I love JavaScript. I also love C#. But you've got to approach how you solve problems with them differently. How you write long term maintainable code in both is different. Weird take. Because the best way to write maintainable JS by far, whether you're using TypeScript to enforce it or not, is to keep all the lessons that informed the design of Java in your heart. Go ahead and decompose your program into classes and interfaces, eschew with clever tricks and just focus on readable code instead, and make sure you or anyone else can without much difficulty work out at any given point what the "shape" (type) of a value is.