[tehbeard]

> Typescript is part of the problem

Typescript is a solution to the jank-fucking-tastic type munging JS does (see: [1] About 1:20 in) and the problems that ensue.... if all you are doing is just making menus appear/disappear on click, by all means keep to JS.

The build steps/tooling are useful when you want to build actual applications rather than decorate a marketing page, and also when you need to support legacy browsers, being able to work with modern sensibilities and get code that'll work in IE11 is a blessing.

> the unnecessary complexity of the Javascript ecosystem is mostly about gatekeeping and aesthetics and i will die on that hill.

JS has much more of a "flavour of the week" problem than more mature ecosystems like PHP, I put that down to a relatively poor stdlib by comparison, rather than aesthetics or gatekeeping.

    1. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat