[russellbeattie]

This is the same typed vs. untyped argument which is as old as vi vs. emacs. Different devs have different requirements and preferences. Neither is "wrong". Some people are just naturally anal retentive pedants who must know their code is correct while writing it, even if it means downloading 500mb of build tools and requiring a jury rigged non-standard transpilation step for it to run. The fact that there's not a single example of a well written non-bloated open source project that uses TypeScript won't put them off, and that's perfectly OK! To each their own! Having yet another flame war about it, no matter how deluded many devs are, is just unproductive.