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by mfn 4467 days ago
Also, compiling down to human-readable and well formatted JS has always been a priority. So it's never difficult to migrate away from typescript, since the typescript can simply be replaced by the compiler's javascript output.

IIRC, this is actually one of the main reasons they're holding off on implementing async/await, since that would require the compiler to convert functions into unreadable state machines.