[james-mcelwain]

> I especially don’t get the ide support bit, because Visual Studio Code already does that for regular JS.

The IDE support in VSCode is at least partially driven by type declarations from TS projects, so regular JS is benefiting from TypeScript.

[eksemplar]

I didn’t say typescript was horrible, it’s just been unnecessary and unproductive for us. I think it does have a place in applications like VS code, because maintaining them is quite a lot bigger than most projects, and you don’t include VS code in yours.