[madeofpalk]

Maybe I'm just not as good of a developer as you, but I often fail to understand 100% of the codebase, or I even make mistakes sometimes. Having a system catch my back to tell me what else I need to update in my refactor is a huge help for me. Maybe that's just not a problem those 10x developers have?

> instead they built a stupid jail that down compiles to unreadable sludge

Does it? The Typescript compiler mostly just erases types, leaving the code otherwise the same. Here's a non-trival example https://tsplay.dev/mA078N, where the output is basically the same as the input, just with type syntax erased.

IIRC the only 'language feature' that Typescript actually compiles is enums, which is a bit of a big blob. There's compiler flags to 'fix' that, or you can just not use enums.