[iainmerrick]

I still don’t fully understand why TypeScript needed to be involved in the discussion at all. TSC tries to do far too much and doesn’t do most of it very well. The tsconfig format is restrictive and annoying.

TS would be a lot better if it were just a type checker and nothing else (which is more or less what you get when you switch to a proper bundler).

[rtpg]

I think it's tricky, because if Typescript _didn't_ show up with tsc, then they would have had their fate bound to Webpack or something like that. And of course tsc and the language server go hand in hand. It's hard to understate the positive effects of tsc existing across the entire ecosystem!

I suppose in a way I'm complaining about a (mostly) non-issue, since bundlers all have good typescript support at this point.

[iainmerrick]

Yeah, overall I love TS as a language, and the tooling can be made to work well.

I just feel like there's a bunch of functionality in TSC that's more troublesome than it is useful. The same could be said of Node, of course.