[mattwad]

agree.. you don't even need "strict: true" to get 90% of the value of Typescript + probably 50% more dev time back not fighting types, but I get downvoted whenever I suggest this. I mean blame the TS team for including it if you think it's such a bad feature.

[striking]

I don't totally disagree, but I've found that you lose whatever dev time you might have thought you gained where bugs crop up and the type system isn't helping you fix them. I've ended up in a situation where the codebase was typed and the test cases weren't, and the test cases had plenty of issues that were ridiculously hard to debug because we let the tests remain untyped.