[losvedir]

Typescript as a language is better than "isn't too bad", it's great! I love the syntax for unions and how normal things like "if" will narrow types.

But I agree that it's a shame that the JS ecosystem is such a mess. Granted, dealing with it is essentially Typescript's purpose, but I would love for it to be a full fledged language on its own, divorced from JS. How cool would it be if you could write normal backend apps in it and compile them to native code?

I use Deno a bit and pretend, but it's not quite the same.

[smcleod]

I agree, I wish there was more incentive for developers (especially on the front end side!) to not install every package under the sun and instead be a little less "fancy" or aim for satisfying the 90% rather than the 100%.

[k__]

I wished Flow or ReScript would have won.

TypeScript is too C#-ish for my taste.

Well, still better than nothing, I guess.

[Huh1337]

Make your linter forbid the class keyword, it's all about how you write it. The language allows both OOP and functional styles.

[pragmatic]

Look at the Typescript repo itself.

Very much not like C#. Frameworks like Angular use it very much like c# though.

[k__]

Yes, it's an okay-ish language.

Often bette than pure JavaScript, which is also an okay-ish language.

So, I think, overall we're better off