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> Yes, I get strong typing has merits - but so does writing the native language.

Naturally. But the merits of strong typing far outweigh those of writing the native language, for me at least. If you have a project of any reasonable size, TypeScript is such a huge productivity boost it's incredible.

I was very sceptical (having indeed been burnt by trying CoffeeScript before) but the comparison doesn't really work with TypeScript. If it died tomorrow and we all decided to go without it, we'd just transpile to JS and be done with it - CS -> JS looks very, very different, but TS -> JS is the exact same code, just with types stripped out.