[Solvency]

Which further exposes the irony of casual hipsters who say things to me like "Thank God for Typescript, it's like a whole other language than JS". For example, a designer, who writes a quick one off plug-in for Figma in Typescript without realizing 99.9% could have been just written/pasted into the JS file (which is ultimately what Figma runs).

[wk_end]

To be honest, in the appropriate context I will contradict myself and say that that you should think of TypeScript as a separate language. There's a lot of dynamic things you can do in JavaScript that will interact poorly with attempts to statically reason about your code with TypeScript; even if it's the approach you'd take in JS, when you add typing you should recalibrate how you approach the problem - that, to me, is an argument for thinking of it as separate language.

...but that's mostly just what I say to JavaScript devs, to be polite - to not tell them that their JavaScript code is bad, too. Code that's difficult to reason about statically is strictly worse, in my opinion, than code that's easier to reason about statically. And in that sense, TypeScript is just guiding you to write better JavaScript, which maybe undercuts its claim to being a language of its own.