[patrick451]

If I'm told to still use === in typescript, it's not actually a statically typed language.

[smt88]

It's not a statically typed language. No one is claiming it is. It's a dynamic language with static types.

[patrick451]

Nonsense.

If I need to keep using === because the type might actually be something different at runtime, it doesn't have static types.

[smt88]

It has static types because the compiler won't let you change a variable's type.

It's exactly as statically typed as C#. Both allow explicitly-declared dynamic variables, but they're disabled by default.

=== is incidental syntax required to maintain the goal of being a superset of JS.