Comment by ajxs

At the risk of being downvoted into Hades, I feel that if your project is complex enough to warrant using Typescript, its complex enough to warrant using a more robust and comprehensive language. After using Typescript extensively working on a back-end application in a complex problem domain I feel that while it is definitely a fantastic improvement to the core language, it doesn't really escape Javascript's worst issues. Issues like Promise-fatigue, poor ecosystem, terrible native types are still there under the hood. For the extra tax you pay in terms of build pipeline, tooling and dealing with the ecosystem, you may as well upgrade to a language more suitable for this kind of development for little extra cost. I just feel this debate is somewhat of a false dichotomy. People in this thread are debating Typescript vs Javascript as if these are the only two possible options for web development.