[AlexMax]

> TS feels like something that was created to lure programmers who couldn’t wrap their heads around JS loose nature. Almost like it was created to convince Java and C# developers to use JS.

On the contrary, as somebody who learned programming with a mix of static and dynamic types, I felt like TypeScript showed me what a good type system was capable of in giving me the best of both worlds.

Instead of being pedantry, I felt like the type system was actually on my side for once and helping me to write correct code with fewer unaccounted-for corner cases and unexpected runtime crashes. And it does that while avoiding the feeling I got from previous statically-typed languages I used where the type system felt like a straight jacket incapable of expressing non-trivial concepts and relationships.

[whoisjuan]

Perhaps one reason why I feel like I do about it is that I write a lot of prototype code and maybe sub-consciously it makes me feel like I’m losing speed.