[jakear]

Did you try running the build script and working directly in “out/“? I doubt it would have been easier. Big projects simply take time to learn and contribute to, TypeScript or not.

Actually, I’d say VS Code would be much harder to contribute to without TS. You mentioned adding a setting. This requires touching several different methods (parsing, cleansing, etc.). With TypeScript, the compiler instantly tells you when you have forgotten to implement a part of the setting pipeline. With JS, the runtime gives you some “undefined is not a blah” error to track down.