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by wffurr 1232 days ago
>> the rest of TS features are just trying to put Java into Javascript, empowering people to turn 100 LOC worth of functionality into 1000 LOC of cruft

Not sure what features those are, but TypeScript still has first-class functions, higher-order functions, and algebraic data types. Those are all excellent tools for not writing Java. If people are writing Java code in TypeScript, they're missing out on all the features and power available to them that aren't in Java.