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Discussion on: Do you prefer TypeScript over vanilla JS?

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Mike Stemle

I prefer ES6 JavaScript by a lot. TypeScript adds a lot of complexity without any major runtime benefit. It also limits the more dynamic capabilities of JavaScript, mostly to solve problems of carelessness.
There's also a huge performance suck in TypeScript in how people convert one "type" to another, simply to mitigate the type validation system introduced by TypeScript.