[Nextgrid]

JavaScript itself is not a hack, it works fine for its original purpose - making webpages interactive.

What I consider hacks is the hundreds of different tools and dialects of JS that are used to bend JS into doing something it wasn’t really designed for.

JS is fine in the browser, and TypeScript is also fine there because you don’t really have the choice to run anything different (although Web Assembly might change the game soon). But on the backend you have the privilege to pick between dozens of different languages that are better suited to the task and support the features you want out of the box without layering hacks on top. Why not just go with one of those?