[fenomas]

I've worked adjacent to TS since it was a thing and I've never heard of anyone associating it with Java or classic OO or the other stuff you've brought up. Maybe it's seen that way by some other community somewhere, but not by TS users.

I mean - it's literally just JS with types! It still has closures, and still has everything about JS one can call functional. It's not some dramatically different language - it's JS, with a large category of runtime errors changed into linter errors. (And that's why people use it - not because they think "eww gross!" about something, which is a frankly silly thing to claim.)