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by hither_shores 1372 days ago
> I think it's like that because they had to hack it on top of Javascript

This is the source of most of typescript's flaws, but the mediocre type syntax was a deliberate choice: it's all erased at compile time, so javascript imposes no constraints. My guess is that it's just because many of the original typescript devs were on the C# language team.