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From my perspective is TypeScript utmostly about "higher" productivity.

TypeScript itself is just "JavaScript that scales", and "starts from the same syntax and semantics that millions of JavaScript developers know today".

Where it highly starts paying off is when you leverage on the synergy of TypeScript with development tools with integrated support of TypeScript. You'll get tools like

No need to take just my word for it, check others too

We love TypeScript for many things… With TypeScript, several of our team members have said things like 'I now actually understand most of our own code!' because they can easily traverse it and understand relationships much better. And we’ve found several bugs via TypeScript’s checks.”

— Brad Green, Engineering Director - AngularJS