[quickthrower2]

any (concept not keyword) is useful when you NPM install something without types and just do a define module in a local .d.ts. You are implicitly any-ifying that package.

[bottlepalm]

I'm referring to people who get frustrated and use 'any' as an escape. Especially in programs they write themselves. That's just incompetence.

[quickthrower2]

Yes I haven’t needed to do that. Typescript is very expressive.