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Discussion on: You should probably learn TypeScript

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Ben Halpern

To re-iterate the point in comment form... The values and tradeoffs of TypeScript no longer really matter for you the individual developer. Organizations or leads tasked with making the tradeoff choices still have plenty to talk about, but the technology is just at the generically worth learning phase in its life. You will generally gain a lot from learning TypeScript even if you never write a line of production code. I wouldn't say that around anything more esoteric, or strictly due to popularity. Learning TypeScript is good inherently for your resumé and your developer soul.

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Simon

As a lead, with a multi-language mono-repo, we onboard, and get people productive with Typescript faster than other languages.

They can understand the scope and cost of changes, because typing shows how data objects flow through the system.

And when we share code with other value streams, interfaces are documented.