Comment by earthly

I still don't understand what pulls developers to Typescript. The examples given show major flaws in this (duck)type system. That it works when you don't use the 'any' type and when you know how to avoid all the edge cases and workarounds, I know. But when I see an example like this:

  const shasta = new Cat("Maine Coon")
  printDog(shasta)
  > Dog:Maine Coon

I see a huge red flag. Coming from C/C++ it looks like a joke. Why are all these front-end static type fanatics not more interested in Dart, Purescript, Elm, etc..?