[thomasikzelf]

Have you seen ReScript? Of course it is not as popular as typescript but it improves on all the bad parts of typescript. You'll get sound types with the pain points of javascript stripped out. Because it compiles to readable javascript you are still in the npm ecosystem.

You don't have to rewrite your whole codebase to start using it. It grows horizontally (you add typed files along the way) compared to typescript which grows vertically (you enable it with Any types).

The point is that we don't have to move back to plain js. We have learned a lot since typescript was created and I think the time has come to slowly move to a better language (and ReScript feels the most like Javascript in that regard).