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> I can't help but feel like the two are connected. I _do_ have some beefs with the language itself, though. The export syntax concept is awful, the overly flexible type system to which I still haven't seen the point with and of course the whole thing needs to be transpiled to actually run.

They are connected, but almost exclusively in the JS -> TS direction: typescript imports are javascript imports, the type system is messy because javascript is messy (whether complete compatibility with javascript was a good goal is another question...), etc.

> But the whole NodeJS/TypeScript community seems to have no common direction whether it comes to dependency managers, coding styles, transpilers, bundlers or much about any other “best practice” paradigms.

Yep.