I think part of the reason C# has changed so much as far as the language goes, not the CLR is actually because they took so many good things from Typescript and

I think part of the reason C# has changed so much as far as the language goes, not the CLR is actually because they took so many good things from Typescript and mixed them into the language. I think part of the reason Typescript has become so cumbersome to work with is because it has similarly added a lot of the good things from C#. Which may sound like a contradiction, but I actually agree with you that plain JavaScript is often great. That being said, you don’t actually have to use all the features of Typescript and it’s still much better for larger project in my opinion. Mostly because it protects developers from ourselves in a less “config on organisational level” way. We already use regular JS for some of our internal libraries, because keeping up with how TS transpires things into JS is just too annoying. Don’t get me wrong, it gets it right 98% of the time, but because it’s not every time we have to check. The disadvantage is that we actually need/want some form of types. We get them via JSDoc which can frankly do almost everything Typescript does for us, but with much poorer IDE support (for the most part). Also more cumbersome than simply having something like structs.