[russellbeattie]

Someone please point me to a project using TypeScript that isn't an over-engineered steaming pile of excrement. Please. Enlighten me. I've yet to see one where the code is even somewhat mentally parsable. Abstractions galore, needless separations of concern, indecipherable build scripts that take forever to run, insane JS output and more. It's basically a write-only language extension where only the people actively working on a project can actually understand any of it.

Look at this thread. So many comments about how great the language is, but with the caveat about how horrible the ecosystem is. Think about that for a second and maybe you'll get it.

What is it about strongly typed languages that attracts developers enamored with their own cleverness? I'd rather work with Java. And I loathe Java.