I would think most people on Hackernews are familiar with Typescript, but some of the benefits from the top of my head:
- Better tooling
- Easier to work with existing javascript code
- Superset of javascript
- Larger community and ecosystem
- More developers are familiar with it
- Easy Server Side Rendering
- Better tooling - Easier to work with existing javascript code - Superset of javascript - Larger community and ecosystem - More developers are familiar with it - Easy Server Side Rendering