Comment by a_wild_dandan

The gist of those examples in TypeScript:

EXAMPLE 1: Echo command-line input

    console.log(process.argv);

EXAMPLE 2: Count duplicates in a file

    import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
    readFile("0.txt", "utf-8").then((text) => {
      const frequency: { [line: string]: number } = {};
      text
        .split("\n")
        .forEach((line) => (frequency[line] = frequency[line] + 1 || 1));
      Object.entries(frequency)
        .filter(([key, value]) => value > 1)
        .forEach(([key, value]) => console.log(value, key));
    });

EXAMPLE 3: GET request

    fetch(process.argv[2]).then(console.log).catch(console.error);

EXAMPLE 4: GET parallel requests

    process.argv.slice(2).map((url) => {
      const start = Date.now();
      fetch(url).then((res) =>
        console.log(
          `${(Date.now() - start) / 1000}s`,
          res.headers.get("Content-Length"),
          url
        )
      );
    });

Using the author's criteria, relative to Tcl, these implementations (to me) are:

1. Significantly shorter, just as expressive, and familiar to millions of (JS/TS) devs

2. Fast, owing to Node.js/V8's insane optimization level

3. Strongly typed

But you know what? I don't care much about terseness or speed when writing scripts. Honestly, the real reason I use TS for scripts is simple: comfort. I'm comfortable and productive with it. Everything else is just post-hoc rationalization. I'd wager it's the same story for many of these "Why <language/tech>?" posts.

It's perfectly fine to use something simply because you like it -- you're in good company. :)