[spaceheater]

The whole shtick (and beauty) of Javascript is that it is a dynamic language. In some point in time corporate Java people started using JS, and now we have this : "is well understood that static typing is a good thing". It's not. But as always you have a vocal minority, influencers and evangelists shouting their BS, about how TypeScript has terraformed theirs lives and they can't imagine life without it.

Use your head, if you don't like TS, don't use it.

[recursive]

I'd argue that the shtick of javascript is that it runs in a browser. The dynamic thing seems like more of a coincidence to me.

[matthewwolfe]

Id argue the static typing is great, and the best part of Java that is otherwise ruined by OOP. Give me the types and leave out all the OOP factory garbage, and you are left with the best parts. That’s what typescript ends up being.

[8note]

Typescript is significantly better than java imo, in that it can figure out what the right object shape is on its own for the most part, rather than needing to write another file for every intermediate data object in a process flow