[asark]

I just don't like having to look things up, or remember them, or tell someone else about them, or make sure the things I told them or that they told me are still true six months later, or check manually that I haven't typo'd a variable name, and so on and so on, when a machine can do those things for me.

The absolute worst case with TS is that I'm as bad off as I would be in JS (use "any", or "as", or provide a dummy anything-goes d.ts for a lib, or whatever). I haven't found that I actually need to do those things very often, even being fairly lazy and having a very low tolerance for time lost to managing my tools.

[z3t4]

When dealing with binary packages I have to do stuff like iterating over an object to see what it exposes. I guess typings (if one exist) help a lot there. But for open source code you can just look in the source. Looking at other peoples source code is the best way to learn, so don't let TypeScript take that away for you. The projects with non-existing documentation is often the ones most easy to use. Maybe because the source code is so easy to understand that no documentation is needed :P