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Everything in this article is true. As you can see by the comments in this thread, saying "I love TypeScript" is not enough to please the TypeScript cult. Nothing but complete devotion is required. You can say "it has its flaws" but don't mention them, just say that phrase to pretend you aren't biased.

The comments in this thread say that the way you are writing TypeScript is wrong. What they are advocating for is essentially turning TypeScript into Java in terms of its style. This is what good TypeScript codebases end up looking like. They don't look like JavaScript. You could take all of the type information out and they still wouldn't look like JavaScript.

I think that when people find that their ex-JavaScript, now TypeScript codebases have become Java codebases, many of them will realise they don't really like TypeScript anymore. If they are the people that said "You aren't professional if you don't use TypeScript", etc, then they are not welcome back into the JavaScript cult. If they are not one of those people, they must profess their hatred of TypeScript, and then we will let them back in.

Anyway, no matter what, you still have to work with the native APIs and so on, which just don't work with TypeScript. Take Web Components for example. You create a web component by defining a class, but you never instantiate the class yourself. You use document.createElement('my-component'). Good luck typing that. Good luck typing proxies.

I hate TypeScript.