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Discussion on: TypeScript is a waste of time. Change my mind.

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Just being curious, do you prefer compilation error over run-time error? If the answer is the compilation error, I'll say TypeScript is not that bad.

The thing I found most valuable about TypeScript is I can check error on compilation, the required properties on a type/interface already save me and my team hours of debugging, without a doubt if I need to prevent developer errors, this is my life-saving.

And the second thing, I found is that you can use untyped JS in TypeScript. It gives you the option of any and @ts-ignore. Sometimes, I do this just to code faster, I come back later to fix the problem of TypeScript warnings. So, TypeScript give you the power and also the options.