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It appears the tide is changing and what was once hated upon by many in the JS and front-end community, has now become cool and a tonne of projects are migrating. Another project migrating to TypeScript is the Aurelia Javascript Framework for its next version coming out later in 2019.

It's funny because I remember when Angular 2 was announced and that it would be written completely in TypeScript, they copped a lot of backlash for it, but it appears to have been a good move.

I exclusively have been writing in TypeScript for about 3 years now and it's crazy how good it actually is, especially for distributed teams in different time zones. The code is self-documenting and the number of silly mistakes being committed into our codebase has dramatically been reduced, combined with solid unit tests, we haven't really had a code level bug in what feels like months, browser bugs on the other hand...

My favourite thing about TS besides the types and interfaces is the compiler. I no longer have to use transpilers like Babel anymore because TypeScript handles compiling to many different module formats and targets. Back when I used Babel, it felt like pulling teeth because of the different plugins and packages you had to install and configure to use.

I find it really hard to use anything other than TypeScript now, it is simply too good.