Yeah, because anything that isn’t a big new JavaScript framework is just way too complicated

I like TypeScript for its types and type-checking, but I also want to write JavaScript to avoid having a local build step, and having to wait for things to transpile/compile/etc when running locally. I have a pretty large project where I’ve gotten both worlds by just using JSDoc and only using TS for type-checking. VSCode still offers built-in type-checking with JSDocs and ofc the type-checking can also be run separately if needed.

Hmmm a more reasonable first step would be to just not even type anything until you’re ready. But TS makes it hard to iteratively type parts of your codebase over time. One could type using JSDoc syntax for these cases, though.

As a JS dev, I can only wish we had those types 🥲

…or skip em