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by resonious 1195 days ago
> Does your increase in productivity compared to JavaScript simply come from static typing, or is TypeScript itself the source?

As far as I can tell, TypeScript doesn't add any new features or behavior to JS other than static typing.

If you ask me, of course TS isn't as good as the real deal, but it's darn close and way better than vanilla JS or compilers for other languages that target JS.